[1] God is truly good to Israel. God is good to people whose hearts are pure.
[2] I almost slipped and began to sin.
[3] I saw that wicked people were successful I became jealous of those proud people.
[4] Those people are healthy. They don’t have to struggle to survive.
[5] Those proud people don’t suffer like us. They don’t have troubles like other people.
[6] So they are very proud and hateful people. This is as easy to see as the jewels and fancy clothes they wear.
[7] If those people like something they see, they go and take it. They do whatever they want to do.
[8] They say cruel, evil things about other people. They are proud and stubborn. And they are always planning ways to take advantage of other people.
[9] Those proud people think they are gods! They think they are the rulers of earth.
[10] So even God’s people turn to them and do the things they tell them.
[11] Those evil people say, ”God doesn’t know what we are doing! God Most-High does not know!”
[12] Those proud people are wicked, but they are rich and getting richer.
[13] So why should I make my heart pure? Why should I make my hands clean?
[14] God, I suffer all day long. And you punish me every morning.
[15] God, I wanted to talk to other people about these things. But I knew I would be betraying your people.
[16] I tried hard to understand these things. But it was all too hard for me
[17] until I went to your temple. I went to God’s temple, and then I understood.
[18] God, you really have put those people in a dangerous situation. It is so easy for them to fall and be destroyed.
[19] Trouble can come suddenly, and then those proud people are ruined. Terrible things can happen to them, and then they are finished.
[20] Lord, those people will be like a dream that we forget when we wake up. You will make those people disappear like the monsters in our dreams.
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[22] I was very stupid. I thought about rich and wicked people, and I became upset. God, I was upset and angry at you! I acted like a stupid, ignorant animal.
[23] ˻I have everything I need!˼ I am with you always. God, you hold my hand.
[24] God, you lead me and give me good advice. And later you will lead me to glory.
[25] God, I have you in heaven. And when I am with you, what on earth can I want?
[26] Maybe my mind and body will be destroyed, but I have the Rock I love. I have God forever!
[27] God, people who leave you will be lost. You will destroy the people who are not faithful to you.
[28] As for me, I have come to God. And that is good for me. I have made the Lord my Master my place of safety. God, I have come to tell about all the things you have done.