17 I said in mine heart, God │ Then said I to myself: shall judge the righteous and │ With respect to right and the wicked: for _there is_ a │ wickedness, the Almighty does time there for every purpose │ justice, because there is a and for every work. │ time to every providence and │ dominating over every action │ which is done there. (17.) =I said, I myself, in my heart= (which we have noticed commonly introduces a thought more specious than true), =with respect to= (את, which the LXX. note with their customary σὺν) =the righteous= (_i.e._ what is _made_ right or _done_ right; notice the hiphil form as compared with that in the above), =and with regard to the impious= also =judges the Deity, for= there is =a time to every providence, and upon= (or ‘over,’ which the LXX. note by ἐπὶ) =all the working there= (some copies of the LXX. join this to the next verse, but it is more agreeable to the gist of the passage to refer it to the preceding, as the Masoretic text does, and in this case ‘there’ refers back to the age or period). 18 I said in mine heart │ Then said I to myself also: concerning the estate of the │ By the reasonings of the sons of men, ¹that God might │ human race in respect to any manifest them, and that they │ discrimination of them by the might see that they themselves │ Divine Creator, it seems that are beasts. │ but brutes are they at best. │ ¹ _Or_, that they might │ clear God and see. │