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1 My breath is corrupt , my days are extinct , the graves are ready for me.
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1 My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
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2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation ?
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2 Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
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3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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3 "Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
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4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
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5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail .
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5 If a man denounces his friends for reward, the eyes of his children will fail.
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6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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6 "God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
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7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
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8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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8 Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
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9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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9 Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
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10 But as for you all, do ye return , and come now : for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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10 "But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
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11 My days are past , my purposes are broken off , even the thoughts of my heart.
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11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart.
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12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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12 These men turn night into day; in the face of darkness they say, 'Light is near.'
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13 If I wait , the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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13 If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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14 if I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother' or 'My sister,'
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15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
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16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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16 Will it go down to the gates of death ? Will we descend together into the dust?"
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