Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain not.
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My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.
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Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3 Who is this? let him join hands with me.
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"Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there that will give surety for me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them.
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Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 He shall promise mischief to companions: but eyes have failed for children.
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Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.
6 But thou has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.
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"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
7 For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
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My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
8 Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.
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The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
9 But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.
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Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they that have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
10 Howbeit, do ye all strengthen and come now, for I do not find truth in you.
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But you, come back now, all of you, and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
11 My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.
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My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
12 I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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They make night into day; "The light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'
13 For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
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If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
14 I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption my mother and sister.
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if I say to the Pit, "You are my father,' and to the worm, "My mother,' or "My sister,'
15 Where then is yet my hope? or shall I see my good?
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where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
16 Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?
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Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
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