171“My spirit is consumed.My days are extinct,And the grave is ready for me.+2Surely there are mockers with me.My eye dwells on their provocation.+3“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself.Who is there who will strike hands with me?+4For you have hidden their heart from understanding,Therefore you shall not exalt them.+5He who denounces his friends for plunder,Even the eyes of his children shall fail.+6“But he has made me a byword of the people.They spit in my face.+7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.All my members are as a shadow.+8Upright men shall be astonished at this.The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.+9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way.He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.+10But as for you all, come on now again;I shall not find a wise man among you.+11My days are past, my plans are broken off,as are the thoughts of my heart.+12They change the night into day,saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.+13If I look for Sheol as my house,if I have spread my couch in the darkness,+14If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’+15where then is my hope?as for my hope, who shall see it?+16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,or descend together into the dust?”+Footnotes (2)
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