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1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;[#Ps 88.3, 4]
the grave is ready for me.
2Surely there are mockers around me,[#v 6 ; 1 Sam 1.6, 7]
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3“Lay down a pledge for me with yourself;[#Ps 119.122; Prov 6.1]
who is there who will give surety for me?
4Since you have closed their minds to understanding,[#Job 12.20]
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5Those who denounce friends for reward—[#Lev 19.16; Job 11.20]
the eyes of their children will fail.
6“He has made me a byword of the peoples,[#Job 30.9, 10]
and I am one before whom people spit.
7My eye has grown dim from grief,[#Job 16.16]
and all my members are like a shadow.
8The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
9Yet the righteous hold to their way,[#Job 22.30; Prov 4.18]
and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
10But you, come back now, all of you,
and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
11My days are past; my plans are broken off,[#Job 7.6]
the desires of my heart.
12They make night into day;
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
13If I look for Sheol as my house,[#Job 3.13]
if I spread my couch in darkness,
14if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’[#Job 21.26; 24.20; Ps 16.10]
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15where then is my hope?[#Job 7.6]
Who will see my hope?
16Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?[#Job 3.17–19; Jon 2.6]
Shall we descend together into the dust?”