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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?" |
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