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¹ "My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. ² Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation? ³ "Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me? ⁴ For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them. ⁵ He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail. ⁶ "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit. ⁷ My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows. ⁸ Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite. ⁹ Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ "But please, come back again, all of you, [fn] For I shall not find one wise man among you. ¹¹ My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. ¹² They change the night into day; "The light is near,' they say, in the face of darkness. ¹³ If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, ¹⁴ If I say to corruption, "You are my father,' And to the worm, "You are my mother and my sister,' ¹⁵ Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? ¹⁶ Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?"