9. The righteous also will hold to his way,and he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
10. “But as for you all, 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 my house;I have made my bed in the darkness.
14. I have said to the pit, ‘You are my father’;to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
15. Where now is my hope?As for my hope, who will see it?
16. Will they go down to the gates of Sheol?Will we descend together in the dust?”