Berean Study Bible | International Standard Version |
1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me. | 1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me! |
2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion. | 2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night. |
3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor? | 3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor? |
4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them. | 4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph. |
5If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail. | 5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail. |
6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit. | 6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face. |
7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow. | 7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow. |
8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless. | 8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless. |
9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. | 9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger." |
10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you. | 10"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you. |
11My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart. | 11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires. |
12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness. | 12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.' |
13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, | 13"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, |
14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ | 14if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!' |
15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? | 15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? |
16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?” | 16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?" |
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