Verse
ASV
American Standard Version
KJV
King James Version
My spirit
is consumed
, my days are extinct, The grave
is
`
ready '
for me.
My breath
is corrupt
, my days are extinct, the graves
are
ready for me.
Surely
there
are mockers with me ,
And mine eye dwelleth
upon
their provocation .
Are there
not
mockers with me ?
and doth
not
mine eye continue
in
their provocation ?
Give
now a
pledge
, be
surety
for
me with thyself
; Who is there
that will strike hands with me?
Lay
down
now, put
me in
a
surety
with thee
; who is he
that will strike hands with me?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt `
them '
.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
He that denounceth
his friends for
a
prey
, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He that speaketh
flattery
to
his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
But
he hath made me a byword of the people; And they
spit
in
my
face
.
He hath made me also
a byword of the people; and aforetime
I
was
as
a
tabret
.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Upright men shall be astonished
at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless
.
Upright men shall be astonied
at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite
.
Yet
shall
the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax
stronger and stronger.
The righteous also
shall
hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be
stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, come on
now again;
And
I shall
not
find a
wise man among you.
But as for you all, do
ye
return,
and
come now :
for
I cannot
find one
wise man among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day: The light ,
`say
they',
is near
unto
the
darkness.
They change the night into day: the light is short
because
of
darkness.
If I look
for
Sheol
as
my
house ;
If
I have spread
my couch
in the darkness ;
If I wait,
the
grave
is
mine
house :
I have made
my bed
in the darkness .
If
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father ;
To the worm, `
Thou art '
my mother, and my sister ;
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father :
to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister .
Where then
is my hope? And
as for my hope, who shall see it?
And
where is now
my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
It
shall go down to the bars of Sheol
, When once
there
is
rest in the dust.
They
shall go down to the bars of the
pit
, when our
rest together
is
in the dust.
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