myself

Awake psaltery and harpe: I my selfe will awake early.

For my loue, they are my aduersaries: but I giue my selfe vnto prayer.

I will delight my selfe in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

And I will delight my selfe in thy commandements, which I haue loued.

I remembred thy iudgements of old, O LORD: and haue comforted my selfe.

¶ LORD, my heart is not haughtie, nor mine eyes loftie: neither doe I exercise my selfe in great matters, or in things too high for mee.

Surely I haue behaued and quieted my selfe as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soule is euen as a weaned childe.

1611 marginal noteHeb. my soule.

I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe vnto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisedome) and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sonnes of men, which they should doe vnder the heauen all the dayes of their life.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to draw my flesh with wine.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the number of the dayes of their life.

1611 marginal noteChap. 1.17.

¶ And I turned my selfe to behold wisedome, and madnesse and folly: for what can the man doe, that commeth after the king? euen that which hath bene already done.

1611 marginal noteOr, in those things which haue bene already done.

1611 marginal noteChap. 1.17. and 7.23.

The wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: and I my selfe perceiued also that one euent happeneth to them all.

1611 marginal noteProu. 17.24. chap. 8.1.