Latin Text Selections

The Latin:

Omnis homo qui transgréditur lectum suum,
contémnens in ánimam suam, et dicens : Quis me videt ?

Ténebræ circúmdant me, et paríetes coopériunt me,
et nemo circúmspicit me : quem véreor ?
delictórum meórum non memorábitur Altíssimus.

Et non intélligit quóniam ómnia videt óculus illíus,
quóniam expéllit a se timórem Dei huiúsmodi hóminis timor,
et óculi hóminum timéntes illum :

et non cognóvit quóniam óculi Dómini
multo plus lucidióres sunt super solem,
circumspiciéntes omnes vias hóminum,
et profúndum abýssi, et hóminum corda,
intuéntes in abscónditas partes.

The English:

Every man that passeth beyond his own bed,
despising his own soul, and saying: Who seeth me?

Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me,
and no man seeth me: whom do I fear?
the most High will not remember my sins.

And he understandeth not that his eye seeth all things,
for such a man’s fear driveth from him the fear of God,
and the eyes of men fearing him:

And he knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord
are far brighter than the sun,
beholding round about all the ways of men,
and the bottom of the deep, and looking into the hearts of men,
into the most hidden parts.