Young's Literal Translation YLT
Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves [are] for me.
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My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me.
2 If not -- mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
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Surely mockers surround me and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
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Make arrangements! Put up security for me. Who [else] will be my sponsor?
4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
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You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore You will not honor [them].
5 For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
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If a man informs on his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
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He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at.
7 And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
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My eyes have grown dim from grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow.
8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
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The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are roused against the godless.
9 And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
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Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.
10 Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
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But come back [and try] again, all of you. I will not find a wise man among you.
11 My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
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My days have slipped by; my plans have been ruined, even the things dear to my heart.
12 Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.
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They turned night into day and [made] light [seem] near in the face of darkness.
13 If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
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If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,
14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou [art] my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.
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and say to the Pit: You are my father, and to the worm: My mother or my sister,
15 And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
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where then is my hope? Who can see [any] hope for me?
16 [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?
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