[1]My breath is corrupt, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes doore[2]Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them[3]O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suretie in thy sight: what is he that knoweth who wyll promise for me[4]For thou hast withholden their heartes from vnderstanding, therefore shalt thou not set [them] vp on hie[5]He that speaketh flatterie to his friend, the eyes of his children shall fayle[6]He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy[7]Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe[8]Vertuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shal take part against the hypocrite[9]The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger[10]As for al you, turne you and get you hence [I pray you] seeing I can not finde one wyse man among you[11]My dayes are past, and my counsailes and thoughtes of my heart are vanished away[12]Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse[13]Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke[14]I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister[15]Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for[16]These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust