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