New King James Version
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| Verse | |
| 1. My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. | |
| 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. | |
| 10. But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not 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 near,' they say, in the face of darkness. | |
| 13. If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, | |
| 14. If I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' And to the worm, 'You are my mother and my sister,' | |
| 15. Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? | |
| 16. Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?" |
| Verse | |
| 1. My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. | |
| 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. | |
| 10. But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not 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 near,' they say, in the face of darkness. | |
| 13. If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, | |
| 14. If I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' And to the worm, 'You are my mother and my sister,' | |
| 15. Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? | |
| 16. Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?" |