171 "My spirit is broken , my days are extinguished , The grave is ready for me. 2 " Surely e mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation . 3 "Lay down , now , a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor e ? 4 "For You have kept their heart from understanding , Therefore e You will not exalt them. 5 "He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish . 6 "But He has made me a byword of the people , And I am one at whom men spit . 7 "My eye has also grown dim because of grief , And all my members are as a shadow . 8 "The upright will be appalled at this , And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless . 9 "Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way , And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 "But come again all of you now , For I do not find a wise man among you. 11 "My days are past , my plans are torn apart , Even the wishes of my heart . 12 "They make night into day , saying, 'The light is near ,' in the presence of darkness . 13 "If I look for Sheol as my home , I make my bed in the darkness ; 14 If I call to the pit , 'You are my father '; To the worm , 'my mother and my sister '; 15 Where now is my hope ? And who regards my hope ? 16 "Will it go down with me to Sheol ? Shall we together go down into the dust ?"
