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| [1]MY spirit is weary, my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me, |
[1]I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not. |
| [2]For there is no falsehood in me, and yet my spirit dwells in their bitterness. |
[2]Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods. |
| [3]Make me, I pray thee, a hostage with thee; then I will surrender myself. |
[3]Who is this? let him join hands with me. |
| [4]For thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore they shall exalt themselves in their deception. |
[4]For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them. |
| [5]When a friend behaves insolently toward his friend, even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
[5]He shall promise mischief to his companions: but their eyes have failed for their children. |
| [6]He has granted power to the nations; I shall be derided before them. |
[6]But thou has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to them. |
| [7]My eye is dim because of anger, and all my senses are like a shadow. |
[7]For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all. |
| [8]Upright men shall be amazed at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the guilty. |
[8]Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor. |
| [9]The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger |
[9]But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage. |
| [10]But as for you all, you are hypocritical, and yet you return and come to me; but I cannot find a wise man among you. |
[10] Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in you. |
| [11]O you time wasters! Dawdlers! Who think about nothing! O you destroyers of the hearts of the people! |
[11]My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken. |
| [12]You change the night into day; and you bring forth the light before the darkness is over. |
[12]I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. |
| [13]If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness. |
[13]For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. |
| [14]I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, You are my mother and my sister. |
[14]I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister. |
| [15]Where is now my hope and my trust? As for my hope, who shall find it? |
[15]Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good? |
| [16]They shall go down to the bottom of Sheol; they shall descend together into the dust |
[16]Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb? |