2. Are not mockers with me?And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
3. “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.Who is he who will shake hands with me?
4. For You have hidden their heart from understanding;Therefore You will not exalt them.
5. He who speaks flattery to his friends,Even the eyes of his children will fail.
6. “But He has made me a byword of the people,And I have become one in whose face men spit.
7. My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,And all my members are like shadows.
8. Upright men are astonished at this,And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
9. Yet the righteous will hold to his way,And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.