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