My foot laid hold upon his going, I watched his way and not softly.
Our heart drew not back, and thou wilt not incline our going from thy path;
To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.
Hold up my being straight in thy ways, my steps be not moved
And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.
And those departing from after Jehovah, and who sought not Jehovah, and asked not for him.
The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.
Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:
And it will yet be my consolation, and I shall exult in pain: he will not spare; for I hid not the words of of the Holy One.
If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:
The proud derided me even greatly: I declined not from thy law.
Upon thy knowledge that I will not do evil; and none delivering from thy hand.
For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death.
Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth.