1.
My spirit has been destroyed, my days flicker; graves are ready for me,
2.
even if there were no mockers with me, and in their provocation my eye [did not] abide.
3.
Pay heed now, give me surety with You, for who is it who will shake hands with me?
4.
For You have hidden their hearts from understanding; therefore, You will not be exalted.
5.
He who speaks to his friends with flattery-his children's eyes will fail.
6.
And it set me up as a byword for peoples, and I will be [like] a drum before them.
7.
And my eye is dimmed from anger, and my limbs are all like a shadow.
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The upright will be appalled by this, and an innocent one will be aroused against a hypocrite.
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Yet the righteous holds on his way, and the one whose hands are clean grows stronger and stronger.
10.
But all of them, [I say] you shall return and come now, and I will not find any wise man among you.
11.
My days have passed, yea my purposes; the thoughts of my heart have been broken off.
12.
They turn night into day; the light is short because of the darkness.
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Since I hope for the grave as my house, in the darkness I have spread out my couch.
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To the pit I have called, 'You are my father'; 'My mother,' and 'My sister,' to the worms.
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Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
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The limbs of the grave shall descend, even together they rest on the dust."
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