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¹ "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. ² Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation. ³ "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? ⁴ For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them. ⁵ He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. ⁶ "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. ⁷ My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. ⁸ Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. ⁹ Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you. ¹¹ My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart. ¹² They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. ¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness, ¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' ¹⁵ Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? ¹⁶ Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"