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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’ |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14if I say to the pit, ‘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 will see my hope? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?” |
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