¹¹ They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

¹³ You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

¹¹ He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

²¹ Won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

⁷ They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."

¹ > Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me.

² You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

³ You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

⁵ You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

⁶ This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

¹² Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

² They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

¹² It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."