- 1. My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
- 2. Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation?
- 3. Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
- 4. For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
- 5. Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile.
- 6. He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret.
- 7. Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
- 8. Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stirre vp himselfe against the hypocrite.
- 9. The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger.
- 10. But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.
- 11. My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart:
- 12. They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes.
- 13. If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.
- 14. I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- 15. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- 16. They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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