1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;…
2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must…
3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand.…
4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore…
5If a man denounces his friends for a…
6He has made me a byword among the…
7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and…
8The upright are appalled at this, and the…
9Yet a righteous one holds to his way,…
10But come back and try again, all of…
11My days have passed; my plans are broken…
12They have turned night into day, making light…
13If I look for Sheol as my home,…
14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’…
15where then is my hope? Who can see…
16Will it go down to the gates of…