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Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt `them'.

But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

They change the night into day: The light, `say they', is near unto the darkness.

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

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

Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

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

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.