1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

<>extinct, <>the graves

2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

<>Are there not mockers with me?

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.

<>thou hast hid their heart from understanding

5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

<>v. 5, <>He that speaketh flattery, <>eyes … shall fail, <>children

6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

<>I was as a tabret.

7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

<>my members are as a shadow

8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

<>Upright

9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

<>The righteous also shall hold on his way, <>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.

<>I cannot find one wise man among you.

11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

<>My days are past

12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

<>v. 12

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.

<>v. 14, <>I have said … 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?

<>where is now my hope?, <>where is now my hope? … hope, <>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.

<>when our rest … is in the dust