171My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves
are ready
for me.+2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?+3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who
is he
that will strike hands with me?+4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt
them.+5He that speaketh flattery to
his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.+6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.+7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members
are
as a shadow.+8Upright
men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.+9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.+10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find
one wise
man among you.+11My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
even the thoughts of my heart.+12They change the night into day: the light
is short because of darkness.+13If I wait, the grave
is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.+14I have said to corruption, Thou
art my father: to the worm,
Thou art my mother, and my sister.+15And where
is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?+16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when
our rest together
is in the dust.+
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