⁸ “For my thoughts^(A) are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”^(B)
declares the Lord.

⁵ How great are your works,^(A) Lord,
    how profound your thoughts!^(B)

⁵ Many, Lord my God,
    are the wonders^(A) you have done,
    the things you planned for us.
None can compare^(B) with you;
    were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
    they would be too many^(C) to declare.

⁹ Who is wise?^(A) Let them realize these things.
    Who is discerning? Let them understand.^(B)
The ways of the Lord are right;^(C)
    the righteous walk^(D) in them,
    but the rebellious stumble in them.

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful^(A)
    toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.^(B)

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

⁸ The way of the guilty is devious,^(A)
    but the conduct of the innocent is upright.