27:2. As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
27:3. As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
27:4. My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
27:5. God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
27:6. My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
27:7. Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
27:8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
27:9. Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
27:10. Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
27:11. I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.