- 1. ¶ MY spirit is weary, my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me,
- 2. For there is no falsehood in me, and yet my spirit dwells in their bitterness.
- 3. Make me, I pray thee, a hostage with thee; then I will surrender myself.
- 4. For thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore they shall exalt themselves in their deception.
- 5. When a friend behaves insolently toward his friend, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
- 6. He has granted power to the nations; I shall be derided before them.
- 7. My eye is dim because of anger, and all my senses are like a shadow.
- 8. Upright men shall be amazed at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the guilty.
- 9. The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
- 10. ¶ But as for you all, you are hypocritical, and yet you return and come to me; but I cannot find a wise man among you.
- 11. O you time wasters! Dawdlers! Who think about nothing! O you destroyers of the hearts of the people!
- 12. You change the night into day; and you bring forth the light before the darkness is over.
- 13. If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
- 14. I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, You are my mother and my sister.
- 15. Where is now my hope and my trust? As for my hope, who shall find it?
- 16. They shall go down to the bottom of Sheol; they shall descend together into the dust.
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