1My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me. 2Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their rebellion? 3Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will strike hands with me? 4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them. 5He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6But He has made me a byword of the people, and I have become one in whose face men spit. 7My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like shadows. 8Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite. 9Yet the righteous will take hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall increase strength. 10But please, return and come back, all of you, for I do not find one wise man among you. 11My days have past, my plans have been torn apart, even the thoughts of my heart. 12They set the night for day. The light is near, they say, in the face of darkness. 13If I wait for the grave as my house, if I make my bed in the darkness; 14if I have said to corruption, You are my father, and to the worm, You are my mother and my sister; 15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? 16They shall go down to the gates of Sheol; we shall have rest together in the dust.