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¹ My spirit is broken,
my days have faded out,
the grave awaits me.
² Surely mockery is with me;
my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
³ Make then my pledge with you.
Who else will put up security for me?
⁴ Because you have closed their minds to understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
⁵ If a man denounces his friends for personal gain,
the eyes of his children will fail.
⁶ He has made me a byword to people,
I am the one in whose face they spit.
⁷ My eyes have grown dim with grief;
my whole frame is but a shadow.
⁸ Upright men are appalled at this;
the innocent man is troubled with the godless.
⁹ But the righteous man holds to his way,
and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

¹⁰ "But turn, all of you, and come now!
I will not find a wise man among you.
¹¹ My days have passed, my plans are shattered,
even the desires of my heart.
¹² These men change night into day;
they say, ‘The light is near
in the face of darkness.'
¹³ If I hope for the grave to be my home,
if I spread out my bed in darkness,
¹⁴ If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,'
and to the worm, ‘My Mother,' or ‘My sister,'
¹⁵ where then is my hope?
And my hope, who sees it?
¹⁶ Will it go down to the barred gates of death?
Will we descend together into the dust?"