¹My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

²[Are there] not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?

³Lay down now, put me in a surety with youi ; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?

⁴For youi have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall youi not exalt [them] .

⁵He that speaks flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁶He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tambourine.

⁷Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.

⁸Upright [men] shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

⁹The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

¹⁰But as for you all, do you2f return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.

¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.

¹²They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.

¹³If I wait, the grave [is] my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

¹⁴I have said to corruption, youi [are] my father: to the worm, [you are] my mother, and my sister.

¹⁵And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.