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"My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave [is ready] for me. |
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2
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[Are] not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation? |
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3
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"Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who [is] he [who] will shake hands with me? |
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4
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For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt [them.] |
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5
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He who speaks flattery to [his] friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail. |
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6
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" But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit. |
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7
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My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members [are] like shadows. |
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8
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Upright [men] are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite. |
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9
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Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger. |
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10
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" But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find [one] wise [man] among you. |
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My days are past, My purposes are broken off, [Even] the thoughts of my heart. |
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12
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They change the night into day; 'The light [is] near,' [they say,] in the face of darkness. |
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13
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If I wait [for] the grave [as] my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, |
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14
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If I say to corruption, 'You [are] my father,' And to the worm, 'You [are] my mother and my sister,' |
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15
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Where then [is] my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? |
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16
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[Will] they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall [we have] rest together in the dust?" |
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