1. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2. Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue to see during their provocation?
3. Establish it now, provide me a pledge with you; who is he that will make an agreement with me?
4. For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
5. He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6. He has made me also a disgrace of the people; and formerly I was as a tabret.
7. My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8. Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the hypocrite.
9. The righteous also shall keep to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10. But as for you all, return, and do come: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11. My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12. They consider the night to be day: the light is brief because of darkness.
13. If I wait, the grave 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. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16. They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when we shall rest together in the dust.
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