⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.

⁵ You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
    your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
    none can compare with you.
Were I to proclaim and tell of them,
    they would be more than can be counted.^(A)

⁹ Those who are wise understand these things;
    those who are discerning know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
    and the upright walk in them,
    but transgressors stumble in them.^(A)

¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
    for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.^(A)

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.^(A)

³ Like the heavens for height, like the earth for depth,
    so the mind of kings is unsearchable.

⁸ The way of the guilty is crooked,
    but the conduct of the pure is right.