[1] "My spirit is broken. My days have been snuffed out. The cemetery is waiting for me. [2] Certainly, mockers are around me. My eyes are focused on their opposition. [3] Please guarantee my bail yourself. Who else will guarantee it with a handshake? [4] You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them. [5] (Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children's eyesight fail.) [6] "Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people. Now they spit in my face. [7] Now my eyes are blurred from grief. Now all my limbs are like a shadow. [8] Decent people are shocked by this, and it stirs up the innocent against godless people. [9] Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. [10] "But now, all of you, come and try again! I won't find one wise man among you. [11] My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams are shattered. [12] You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness. [13] If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness, [14] if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and sister,' [15] then where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me? [16] Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?"
