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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Because you 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 personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If I cry 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? And my hope, who sees it? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?" |
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