[1]My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.[2]I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.[3]Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.[4]Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.[5]He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.[6]He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.[7]My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.[8]The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.[9]And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.[10]Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.[11]My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.[12]They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.[13]If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.[14]If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.[15]Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?[16]All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?