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| [1]My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves [are] for me. |
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| [2]If not -- mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. |
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| [3]Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me? |
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| [4]For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them. |
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| [5]For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed. |
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| [6]And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am. |
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| [7]And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. |
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| [8]Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up. |
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| [9]And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all. |
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| [10]Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man. |
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| [11]My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! |
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| [12]Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness. |
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| [13]If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. |
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| [14]To corruption I have called: -- `Thou [art] my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm. |
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| [15]And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? |
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| [16][To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest. |
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