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¹ My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.² Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.³ "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?⁴ Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.⁵ He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.⁶ "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.⁷ My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.⁸ Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.⁹ Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.¹¹ My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.¹² They make night into day; 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,¹⁴ if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'¹⁵ where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?¹⁶ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"