1WHY do you boast of evil, O mighty man? Your tongue devises injustices against the innocent every day.

2It is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

3You love evil more than good, and lying rather than speaking righteousness.

4You love all that speak evil and all deceitful tongues;

5Therefore, God shall overthrow you, and he shall root you out of your dwelling place, and out of the land of the living.

6Then shall the righteous see and rejoice, and shall trust in the LORD;

7And they shall say, Lo, this is the man who trusted not in God; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and boasted in his possessions.

8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

9I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it; and I will proclaim thy name before thy saints for generations.