17:001

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me

17:002

Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation

17:003

Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me

17:004

For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them

17:005

He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail

17:006

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit

17:007

Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow

17:008

Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless

17:009

Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger

17:010

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you

17:011

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart

17:012

They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness

17:013

If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness

17:014

If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister'

17:015

Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it

17:016

They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust