| 1: My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are
ready for me. |
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| 2: Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue
in their provocation? |
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| 3:
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that
will strike hands with me? |
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| 4: For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore
shalt thou not exalt them. |
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| 5: He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his
children shall fail. |
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| 6: He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I
was as a tabret. |
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| 7: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members
are as a shadow. |
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| 8: Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall
stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
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| 9: The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath
clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
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| 10: But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot
find one wise man among you. |
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| 11: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the
thoughts of my heart. |
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| 12: They change the night into day: the light is short because of
darkness. |
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| 13: If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness. |
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| 14: I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm,
Thou are my mother, and my sister. |
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| 15: And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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| 16: They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest
together is in the dust.
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