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1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is ready for me.
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2 Surely there are mockers with me,
And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
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3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;
Who is there that will strike hands with me?
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4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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5 He that denouceth his friends for a prey,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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6 But he hath made me a byword of the people;
And they spit in my face.
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7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
And all my members are as a shadow.
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8 Upright men shall be astonished at this,
And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
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9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,
And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
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10 But as for you all, come on now again;
And I shall not find a wise man among you.
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.
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12 They change the night into day:
The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
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13 If I look for Sheol as my house;
If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
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The grave – Sheol, oblivion, death, not torment. E360, R2600:1
In the darkness – Not a place of blazing fire. R2599:2
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14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father;
To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
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To corruption – To which my body turns; while my soul, my being, sleeps, inanimate, awaiting the resurrection. E360
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15 Where then is my hope?
And as for my hope, who shall see it?
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16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,
When once there is rest in the dust. |
The bars of the pit – Sheol, oblivion, death. F360; R2600:1
Our rest together – Whether they have hope for an awakening or not, all find rest in the dust. E360
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