1. “My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me.
2. Surely mockery is with me, and my eye rests on their provocation.
3. Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand?
4. Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let them triumph.
5. He denounces friends for reward, so his children’s eyes will fail.
6. “And he has made me a proverb for the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
7. And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.
8. The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent excites himself over the godless.
9. But the righteous holds on to his way, and he who has clean hands increases in strength.
10. But all of you must return—please come! But I shall not find a wise person among you.