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- My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, & the graue is readie for me.
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- There are none but mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
- 3
- Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?
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- For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.
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- For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends.
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- Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
- 7
- Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
- 8
- The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite.
- 9
- But the righteous wil holde his way, & he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.
- 10
- All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.
- 11
- My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
- 12
- Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
- 13
- Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.
- 14
- I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
- 15
- Where is then now mine hope?
or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for?
- 16
- They shal goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.
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