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¹ My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me. ² Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation? ³ Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? ⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. ⁵ Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile. ⁶ He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret. ⁷ Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. ⁸ Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stirre vp himselfe against the hypocrite. ⁹ The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger.

¹⁰ But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you. ¹¹ My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart: ¹² They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes. ¹³ If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse. ¹⁴ I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, 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 goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.