1
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
2
KJV
[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3
KJV
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
4
KJV
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
5
KJV
He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6
KJV
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7
KJV
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
8
KJV
Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9
KJV
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10
KJV
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
11
KJV
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
12
KJV
They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
13
KJV
If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14
KJV
I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
15
KJV
And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16
KJV
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
KJV: King James Version (1769 text). Public domain outside the United Kingdom.