[1]MY spirit is weary, my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me, [2]For there is no falsehood in me, and yet my spirit dwells in their bitterness. [3]Make me, I pray thee, a hostage with thee; then I will surrender myself. [4]For thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore they shall exalt themselves in their deception. [5]When a friend behaves insolently toward his friend, even the eyes of his children shall fail. [6]He has granted power to the nations; I shall be derided before them. [7]My eye is dim because of anger, and all my senses are like a shadow. [8]Upright men shall be amazed at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the guilty. [9]The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger [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. [11]O you time wasters! Dawdlers! Who think about nothing! O you destroyers of the hearts of the people! [12]You change the night into day; and you bring forth the light before the darkness is over. [13]If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness. [14]I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, You are my mother and my sister. [15]Where is now my hope and my trust? As for my hope, who shall find it? [16]They shall go down to the bottom of Sheol; they shall descend together into the dust
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Author: George M. Lamsa
Source: studybible.info
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