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My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. |
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Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. |
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3
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"Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me? |
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Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph. |
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He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail. |
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"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. |
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7
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My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow. |
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8
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Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. |
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9
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Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. |
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10
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But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. |
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11
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My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. |
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12
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They make night into day; `The light,' they say, `is near to the darkness.' |
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13
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If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness, |
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if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,' |
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where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? |
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16
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Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?" |
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