I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption,
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:
That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?
For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.
But God is true; and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
Hide them in the dust together: and plunge their faces into the pit.
How much more is man abominable and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?