| 1 | My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves [are] for me. |
| 2 | If not -- mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. |
| 3 | Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me? |
| 4 | For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them. |
| 5 | For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed. |
| 6 | And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am. |
| 7 | And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. |
| 8 | Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up. |
| 9 | And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all. |
| 10 | Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man. |
| 11 | My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! |
| 12 | Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness. |
| 13 | If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. |
| 14 | To corruption I have called: -- `Thou [art] my father.` `My mother` and `my sister` -- to the worm. |
| 15 | And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? |
| 16 | [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest. |
