8. Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye kesilim (fools), when will ye get seichel?
9. He that planted the ozen (ear), shall He not hear? He that formed the ayin (eye), shall He not see?
10. He that chastiseth the Goyim, shall not He reprove? He that is the melamed (teacher) of da'as to adam?
11. Hashem knoweth the machshevot (thoughts) of adam, that they are hevel (vanity, futile).
12. Ashrei (blessed) is the gever whom Thou chastenest, Hashem, and teachest him out of Thy torah;
13. That Thou mayest grant him relief from the days of rah, until a shachat (pit) is dug for the rasha.
14. For Hashem will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His nachalah.
15. But mishpat shall revert unto tzedek; and all the yishrei lev (upright in heart) shall follow after it.
16. Who will rise up for Me against the evildoers? Or who will take a stand for Me against the po'alei aven (workers of iniquity)?
17. Unless Hashem had been my help, my nefesh had almost dwelt in dumah (silence).
18. When I said, My regel (foot) slippeth, Thy chesed, Hashem, held me up.
19. In the multitude of my anxieties within me Thy comforts delight my nefesh.
20. Shall the kisse of corruption have chavurah (fellowship) with Thee, those, which deviseth evil by a chok (statute)?
21. They band together against the nefesh of the tzaddik, and condemn dahm naki (innocent blood).
22. But Hashem is my stronghold; and Elohai is the Tzur of my refuge.