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| 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. |
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| 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
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| 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he 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 speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
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| 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
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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 hypocrite. |
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| 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
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| 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one 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 is short because of darkness. |
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| 13 If I wait, Sheol is mine house: I have made my bed 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 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
To corruption – To which my body turns; while my soul, my being, sleeps, inanimate, awaiting the resurrection. E360
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| 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
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| 16 They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest together is 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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