17 Deal generously with Your servant so that I might live;then I will keep Your word.
18 Open my eyes so that I may contemplatewonderful things from Your instruction.
19 I am a stranger on earth; do not hide Your commands from me.
20 I am continually overcomewith longing for Your judgments.
21 You rebuke the proud,the ones under a curse, who wander from Your commands.
22 Take insult and contempt away from me, for I have kept Your decrees.
23 Though princes sit together speaking against me, Your servant will think about Your statutes;