King James Version
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| Verse | |
| 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 art 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. |
| Verse | |
| 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 art 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. |