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- My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.
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- If not — mockeries [are] with me.
And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
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- Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee;
Who is he that striketh hand with me?
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- For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
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- For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
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- And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
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- And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
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- Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
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- And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And — dumb are they all.
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- Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
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- My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
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- Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.
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- If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
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- To corruption I have called: — `Thou [art] my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' — to the worm.
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- And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
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- [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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