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¹ MY spirit is weary, my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me,² For there is no falsehood in me, and yet my spirit dwells in their bitterness.³ Make me, I pray thee, a hostage with thee; then I will surrender myself.⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore they shall exalt themselves in their deception.⁵ When a friend behaves insolently toward his friend, even the eyes of his children shall fail.⁶ He has granted power to the nations; I shall be derided before them.⁷ My eye is dim because of anger, and all my senses are like a shadow.⁸ Upright men shall be amazed at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the guilty.⁹ The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But as for you all, you are hypocritical, and yet you return and come to me; but I cannot find a wise man among you.¹¹ O you time wasters! Dawdlers! Who think about nothing! O you destroyers of the hearts of the people!¹² You change the night into day; and you bring forth the light before the darkness is over.¹³ If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.¹⁴ I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, You are my mother and my sister.¹⁵ Where is now my hope and my trust? As for my hope, who shall find it?¹⁶ They shall go down to the bottom of Sheol; they shall descend together into the dust.