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1“My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished;
the graveyard is for me.
2Surely mockery is with me,[#Literally “If not”]
and my eye rests on their provocation.
3Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is he who will give security for my hand?
4Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding;[#Or “For”]
therefore, you will not let them triumph.
5He denounces friends for reward,
so his children’s eyes will fail.
6“And he has made me a proverb for the peoples,[#Hebrew “of”]
and I am one before whom people spit.
7And my eye has grown dim from grief,
and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.
8The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent excites himself over the godless.
9But the righteous holds on to his way,[#Hebrew “And”]
and he who has clean hands increases in strength.
10But all of you must return—please come![#Literally “And but”; #Literally “all of them you must return”; #Literally “and please come,” or “come on!”]
But I shall not find a wise person among you.
11“My days are past; my plans are broken down—
even the desires of my heart.
12They make night into day,
saying, ‘Light is near to darkness.’
13If I hope for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in the darkness,
14if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or my sister,’
15where then is my hope?[#Hebrew “and where”]
And who will see my hope?
16Will they go down to the bars of Sheol?
Or shall we descend together into the dust?”