[1] “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. [2] “Mockers are certainly with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation. [3] “Make a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor? [4] “For You have kept their hearts away from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them. [5] “He who informs against friends for a share of the spoils, The eyes of his children also will perish. [6] “But He has made me a proverb among the people, And I am one at whom people spit. [7] “My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief, And all my body parts are like a shadow. [8] “The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless. [9] “Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And the one 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, The wishes of my heart. [12] “They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness. [13] “If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; [14] If I call to the grave, ‘You are my father’; To the maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’; [15] Where then is my hope? And who looks at my hope? [16] “Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”
