¹ Why boasts you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually. ² your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. ³ You love evil more than good and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. ⁴ You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue. ⁵ God will likewise destroy you forever, he will take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. ⁶ The righteous also will see, and fear, and will laugh at him ⁷ Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. ⁸ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever. ⁹ I will praise you forever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.