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I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.

Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they keep not thy law.

My zeal destroyeth me, because mine oppressors have forgotten thy words.

I beheld them that deal treacherously, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

Because of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.

Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption;

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may celebrate thy name. The righteous shall surround me, because thou dealest bountifully with me.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;

Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;

To punish a righteous [man] is not good, nor to strike nobles because of [their] uprightness.

The devastation of the wicked sweepeth them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, [and] be not envious of the wicked:

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.

because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.