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| [1]My breath is corrupt, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes doore |
[1]My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. |
| [2]Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them |
[2]Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
| [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 |
[3]Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? |
| [4]For thou hast withholden their heartes from vnderstanding, therefore shalt thou not set [them] vp on hie |
[4]For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
| [5]He that speaketh flatterie to his friend, the eyes of his children shall fayle |
[5]He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
| [6]He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy |
[6]He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
| [7]Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe |
[7]Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. |
| [8]Vertuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shal take part against the hypocrite |
[8]Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
| [9]The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger |
[9]The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall 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 |
[10]But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. |
| [11]My dayes are past, and my counsailes and thoughtes of my heart are vanished away |
[11]My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. |
| [12]Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse |
[12]They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. |
| [13]Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke |
[13]If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. |
| [14]I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister |
[14]I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
| [15]Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for |
[15]And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| [16]These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust |
[16]They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. |