² O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.

⁹ And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

² Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

¹⁴ But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

²⁸ And Thomas said in answer, My Lord and my God!

¹⁰ In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.

⁵ One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.

¹³ O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips.

²⁶ He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

⁹ I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;

¹⁰ For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

⁸ When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

¹ <To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

⁷ If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

⁸ Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

² Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.

³ Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

³⁵ Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?