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