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1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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- 1 “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
- 2 “Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
- 3 “Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
- 4 “For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.
- 5 “He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
- 6 “But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
- 7 “My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
- 8 “The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
- 9 “Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
- 10 “But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
- 11 “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.
- 12 “They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
- 13 “If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
- 14 If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';
- 15 Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
- 16 “Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”
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