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| 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine. |
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| 2 Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation? |
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| 3 Lay down now a pledge, be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me? |
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| 4 For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them2. |
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| 5 He that betrayeth friends for a prey--even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
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| 6 And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face. |
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| 7 And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. |
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| 8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly; |
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| 9 But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength. |
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| 10 But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you. |
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| 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart. |
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| 12 They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.
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| 13 If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: |
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 cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, 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 then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it? |
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| 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together 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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