Olam 2

If <i>I speak</i> of strength, lo, <i>he is</i> strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time <i>to plead</i>?

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: <i>if I say</i>, I <i>am</i> perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

<i>Though</i> I <i>were</i> perfect, <i>yet</i> would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

This <i>is</i> one <i>thing</i>, therefore I said <i>it</i>, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, <i>and</i> who <i>is</i> he?

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle <i>that</i> hasteth to the prey.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort <i>myself</i>:

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.