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The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
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spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur et solum mihi superest sepulchrum
2 Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
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non peccavi et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus
3 “Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
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libera me et pone iuxta te et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
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cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina et propterea non exaltabuntur
5 If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.
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praedam pollicetur sociis et oculi filiorum eius deficient
6 “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
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posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi et exemplum sum coram eis
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
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caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus et membra mea quasi in nihili redacta sunt
8 The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
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stupebunt iusti super hoc et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur
9 Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
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et tenebit iustus viam suam et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem
10 “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
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igitur vos omnes convertimini et venite et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem
11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart
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dies mei transierunt cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum
12 turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.
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noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem
13 If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
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si sustinuero infernus domus mea est in tenebris stravi lectulum meum
14 if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
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putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus
15 where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
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ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea et patientiam meam quis considerat
16 Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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in profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea putasne saltim ibi erit requies mihi
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