Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.
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My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.
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Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3 Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man’s hand fight against me.
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"Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there that will give surety for me?
4 Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.
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Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.
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Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.
6 He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
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"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
7 My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
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My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
8 The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.
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The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they that have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
10 Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
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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 away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
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My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
12 They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
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They make night into day; "The light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'
13 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
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If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
14 I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my 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 is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
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where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
16 All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
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Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
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