"My spirit is broken
, my days
are extinguished
, The 1 agrave
is ready for me.
" aSurely mockers
are with me, And my eye
1gazes
on their provocation
.
"Lay down
, now
, a pledge
afor me with Yourself; Who
is there that will 1be my guarantor
?
"For You have 1 akept their heart
from understanding
, Therefore
You will not exalt
them.
"He who ainforms against friends
for a share
of the spoil, The beyes
of his children
also will languish
.
"But He has made me a abyword
of the people
, And I am
1one at whom men bspit
.
"My eye has also grown
adim
because
of grief
, And all
my bmembers
are as a shadow
.
"The upright will be appalled
at this
, And the ainnocent
will stir
up himself against
the godless
.
"Nevertheless athe righteous will hold
to his way
, And bhe who has clean
hands
will grow
stronger
and stronger.
"But come again
all
of 1you now
, For I ado not find
a wise
man
among you.
"My adays are past
, my plans
are torn
apart
, Even the wishes
of my heart
.
"They make night
into day
, saying, `The light
is near
,' in the presence
of darkness
.
"If I look
for aSheol
as my home
, I 1make
my bed
in the darkness
;
If I call to the apit
, `You are my father
'; To the bworm
, `my mother
and my sister
';
Where now
is amy hope
? And who
regards
my hope
?
" 1Will it go down
with me to Sheol
? Shall we together
ago
down
into the dust
?"