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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
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My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves [are] for me.
2 Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
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If not -- mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
3 “Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
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Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
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For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
5 If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.
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For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
6 “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
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And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
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And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
8 The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
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Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
9 Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
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And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
10 “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
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Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart
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My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
12 turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.
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Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.
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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If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
14 if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
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To corruption I have called: -- `Thou [art] my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.
15 where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
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And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
16 Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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