Verse
WEB
World English Bible
KJV
King James Version
"
My spirit
is consumed
, my days are extinct, And
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 ,
My
eye dwells
on
their provocation .
Are there
not
mockers with me ?
and
doth
not
mine
eye continue
in
their provocation ?
"
Now give
a
pledge
, be
collateral
for
me with yourself.
Who is there
who
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 you
have
hidden
their heart from understanding ,
Therefore shall
you
not exalt them.
For thou
hast
hid
their heart from understanding :
therefore shalt
thou
not exalt them.
He who
denounces
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 has
made me a byword of the people .
They
spit
in
my
face
.
He hath
made me also
a byword of the people ;
and
aforetime
I
was
as
a
tabret
.
My
eye also is dim by reason of sorrow .
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 .
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 .
He who
has
clean hands shall grow
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;
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 plans
are broken off, As
are
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 ,
Saying
'
The light is near'
in
the
presence
of 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, 'You
are
my father ;'
To the worm, '
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? As for my hope, who shall see it?
And
where is now
my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Shall it
go down with
me
to the gates
of Sheol
, Or
descend
together into
the dust ?"
They
shall go down to the bars
of the
pit
, when
our
rest
together is
in
the dust .
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