New Living Translation | International Standard Version |
1“My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me. | 1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me! |
2I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me. | 2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night. |
3“You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me. | 3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor? |
4You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph. | 4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph. |
5They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger. | 5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail. |
6“God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face. | 6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face. |
7My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self. | 7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow. |
8The virtuous are horrified when they see me. The innocent rise up against the ungodly. | 8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless. |
9The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger. | 9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger." |
10“As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t 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 are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken. | 11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires. |
12These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light. | 12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.' |
13What if I go to the grave and make 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, |
14What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot 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? Can anyone find it? | 15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? |
16No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!” | 16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?" |
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. |
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