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¹ My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; graves are for me.² Are not mockers with me? And my eye rests on their insults.³ Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself; who is he who will strike my hand with me?⁴ For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not exalt them .⁵ He informs against friends for a share; even his son's eyes shall be consumed.⁶ He has also set me as a byword of the peoples, and I am a spitting to the faces.⁷ And my eye is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.⁸ Upright ones shall be amazed at this; and the innocent shall stir himself against the ungodly.⁹ And the righteous shall hold firmly on his way; and he of clean hands adds strength.

¹⁰ And now all of them, go back and please come again; and I shall not find among you a wise man.¹¹ My days have passed; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.¹² They set night for day; light is near in the face of darkness.¹³ If I wait for Sheol as my house, I have spread out my bed in the darkness;¹⁴ I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister.¹⁵ And where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?¹⁶ They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our descent together is in the dust.