1 "My spirit is consumed.
My days are extinct
and the grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me.
My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 "Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 "But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this.
The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, come back.
I will not find a wise man among you.
11 My days are past.
My plans are broken off,
as are the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day,
saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
13 If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who will see it?
16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,
or descend together into the dust?"
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1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.2 Are there not mockers around me? and doth {not} mine eye abide in their provocation?3 Lay down now {a pledge}, be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?4 For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt {them}.5 He that betrayeth friends for a prey-even the eyes of his children shall fail.6 And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.7 And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.8 Upright men {shall be} astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;9 But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.10 But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.12 They change the night into day; the light {they imagine} near in presence of the darkness.13 If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:14 I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!15 And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when {our} rest shall be together in the dust.