The Bible in Basic English BBE
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1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
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7 My ruach is broken, my yamim are extinct, the kevarim are ready for me.
2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.
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Does not hatulim (mockery) surround me? And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
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Lay down an eravon (pledge) with Thee; who is he that will put up security for me?
4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
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For Thou hast hid their lev from seichel; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
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He that informs on re’im for chelek, even the eyes of his banim shall fail.
6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
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He hath made me also a mashal (byword) of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.
7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of ka’as, and all my members are like a tzel (shadow).
8 The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.
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Yesharim shall be appalled at this and the naki (pure, innocent) shall stir up himself against the chanef (profane, irreligious).
9 Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
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The tzaddik also shall hold to his derech, and he whose yadayim are tahor shall grow stronger and stronger.
10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.
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But as for all you, do ye return, and come back now; for I cannot find one chacham among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
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My yamim are past, my plans are broken, even the morashot (possessions, desires) of my lev.
12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
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They change the lailah into yom; the ohr is near to choshech, say they.
13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
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If I wait, Sheol is mine bais; I have made my bed in the choshech.
14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
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I have said to Shachat, thou art avi; to the worm, thou art immi, and achoti.
15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
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And where is now my tikveh? As for my tikveh, who regards it?
16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
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Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we go down together into the dust?
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