KJV-Parallel Bibles
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 are 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.
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.
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