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