17“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;The 1,agrave is ready for me.2“aSurely mockers are with me,And my eye1gazes on their provocation.3“Establish, now, a pledgeafor me with Yourself;Who is there that will clap my handin pledge?4“For You have ahidden their heart from insight,Therefore You will not exaltthem.5“He who ainforms against friends for a shareof the spoil,The beyes of his children also will cometoanend.6“But He has made me a abyword of the people,And I am1one at whom men bspit.7“My eye has also grownadimbecause of grief,And all my bmembers are as a shadow.8“The upright will beappalled at this,And the ainnocent will stirup himself against the godless.9“Nevertheless athe righteous will hold to his way,And bhe who has cleanhands will growmightier and mightier.10“But comeagainall of 1you now,For I ado not find a wiseman among you.11“My adaysarepast; my plans are tornapart,Even the wishes of my heart.12“They makenight into day, saying,‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.13“If I hope for aSheol as my home,I 1make my bed in the darkness;14If I call to the apit, ‘You are my father’;To the bworm, ‘my mother and my sister’;15Wherenow is amy hope?And whobeholds my hope?16“1Will it godown with me to Sheol?Shall we togetheragodown into the dust?”
