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1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me! | 1My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me. |
2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night. | 2Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility. |
3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor? | 3"Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me? |
4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph. | 4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph. |
5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail. | 5If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail. |
6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face. | 6"God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit. |
7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow. | 7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow. |
8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless. | 8The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly. |
9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger." | 9Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger. |
10"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you. | 10"But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you. |
11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires. | 11My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart |
12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.' | 12turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near. |
13"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, | 13If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness, |
14if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!' | 14if I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother' or 'My sister,' |
15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? | 15where then is my hope-- who can see any hope for me? |
16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?" | 16Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?" |
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