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¹ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.² Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.⁵ He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.⁶ He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.⁷ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.⁸ Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.⁹ Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall not find a wise man among you.¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the droughts of my heart.¹² They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.¹³ If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;¹⁵ Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it?¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when once there is rest in the dust.