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"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is [ready] for me.
2
"Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
3
"Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
4
"For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt [them].
5
"He who informs against friends for a share [of the spoil], The eyes of his children also will languish.
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"But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
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"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
8
"The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
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"Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10
"But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
11
"My days are past, my plans are torn apart, [Even] the wishes of my heart.
12
"They make night into day, [saying], 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
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"If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
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If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';
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Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
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"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
