|
1
|
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. |
|
2
|
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
|
3
|
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? |
|
4
|
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
|
5
|
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
|
6
|
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
|
7
|
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. |
|
8
|
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
|
9
|
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
|
10
|
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. |
|
11
|
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. |
|
12
|
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. |
|
13
|
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. |
|
14
|
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
|
15
|
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
|
16
|
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. |