petitioner. Therefore he does not call them his enemies, and he does not ask to be delivered from the power of the wicked. Certainly, he is a “suffering righteous person,” and he complains to God about this suffering of his (which, according to traditional Wisdom theology, is certainly undeserved). But that is not the dimension of his suffering that the psalm depicts: it is an intellectual and religious suffering based on his previous view of life and of the world; it is a suffering because of his