1 “My spirit is consumed.
2 Surely there are mockers with me.
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder,
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
10 But as for you all, come back.
11 My days are past.
12 They change the night into day,
13 If I look for Sheol as my house,ᵃᵇ
14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
15 where then is my hope?
16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,ᶜᵈ