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1 “My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.
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My spirit is broken, my days extinguished, the grave, mine.
2 I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
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Surely mockers are with me, and my eye looks on their rebellion.
3 “You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me.
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Take my guarantee. Who else is willing to make an agreement?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph.
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You've closed their mind to insight; therefore, you won't be exalted.
5 They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.
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He denounces his friends for gain, and his children's eyes fail.
6 “God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.
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He makes me a popular proverb; I'm like spit in people's faces.
7 My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.
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My eye is weak from grief; my limbs like a shadow—all of them.
8 The virtuous are horrified when they see me. The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
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Those who do the right thing are amazed at this; the guiltless become troubled about the godless.
9 The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
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The innocent clings to his way; the one whose hands are clean grows stronger.
10 “As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t find a wise man among you.
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But you can bring all of them again, and I won't find a wise one among you.
11 My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.
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My days have passed; my goals are destroyed, my heart's desires.
12 These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.
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They turn night into day; light is near because of the darkness.
13 What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?
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If I hope for the underworld as my dwelling, lay out my bed in darkness,
14 What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
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I've called corruption "my father," the worm, "my mother and sister."
15 Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?
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Where then is my hope? My hope—who can see it?
16 No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!”
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Will they go down with me to the underworld; will we descend together to the dust?
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