1<\/sup>My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?<\/span> <\/p>\n