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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?” |
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