1. TRULY GOD is [only] good to Israel, even to those who are upright and pure in heart.
2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well-nigh slipped.
3. For I was envious of the foolish and arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4. For they suffer no violent pangs in their death, but their strength is firm.
5. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they smitten and plagued like other men.
6. Therefore pride is about their necks like a chain; violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe].
7. Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish; and the imaginations of their minds overflow [with follies].
8. They scoff, and wickedly utter oppression; they speak loftily [from on high, maliciously and blasphemously].
9. They set their mouths against and speak down from heaven, and their tongues swagger through the earth [invading even heaven with blasphemy and smearing earth with slanders]. [Rev. 13:6.]
10. Therefore His people return here, and waters of a full cup [offered by the wicked] are [blindly] drained by them.
11. And they say, How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?