1 “My spirit is broken.
2 Certainly, mockers are around me.
3 Please guarantee my bail yourself.
4 You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand.
5 (Whoever turns in friends to get their property
6 “Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people.
7 Now my eyes are blurred from grief.
8 Decent people are shocked by this,
9 Yet, the righteous person clings to his way,
10 “But now, all of you, come and try again!
11 My days are passing by.
12 You say that night is day.
13 If I look for the grave as my home
14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
15 then where is my hope?
16 Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave?