³ Does it please you to oppress me,^(A)
    to spurn the work of your hands,^(B)
    while you smile on the plans of the wicked?^(C)

¹¹ God has turned me over to the ungodly
    and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.^(A)

¹⁶ But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.^(A)

¹⁸ Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,^(A)
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.^(B)

² “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,^(A)
    the Almighty,^(B) who has made my life bitter,^(C)

⁸ “Would you discredit my justice?^(A)
    Would you condemn me to justify yourself?^(B)

³ For I envied^(A) the arrogant
    when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.^(B)