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[1] My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
[2] Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
[3] Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?
[4] For Thou hast hid their heart fro understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
[5] He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
[6] He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
[7] Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
[8] Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
[9] Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
[10] But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a 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 short because of darkness.
[13] If I look fo nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
[14] If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
[15] Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
[16] They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.
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