¹My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

¹Efa ho ritra ny aiko; Efa milopilopy ny androko; Efa miandry ahy ny fasana.

²Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

²Eny, fanesoana tokoa no manodidina ahy, ary tsy maintsy mijery ny filany ady amiko aho.

³Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

³Masina Hianao, aoka ny tenanao ihany no hiantoka ahy aminao; Fa iza moa no hety hiantoka ahy?

⁴For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

⁴Fa ny fon'ireto dia voahidinao tsy hidiran'ny fahalalana; koa izany no tsy hanandratanao azy.

⁵He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁵Izay manolotra ny sakaizany ho babo, dia ho pahina kosa ny mason'ny zanany.

⁶He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

⁶Ary efa nanao ahy ho ambentinteny amin'ny firenena Izy, ka rorany mandrakariva ny tavako.

⁷Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

⁷Efa pahina ny masoko noho ny alahelo; Ary efa toy ny aloka ny momba ny tenako rehetra.

⁸Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

⁸Ankona noho izany ny olona mahitsy, ary ny tsy manan-tsiny mihendratra mahita ny mpihatsaravela-tsihy.40

⁹The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

⁹Fa ny marina mifikitra tsara amin'ny halehany, ary izay madio tanana no hitombo hery.

¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹⁰Avia avokoa indray ary ianareo rehetra tsy mahita izay olon-kendry eo aminareo aho.

¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

¹¹Mihelina ny androko, voaongotra ny fikasako. Dia izay hevitra fikirin'ny foko indrindra;

¹²They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

¹²Ny alina ataon'ireny ho antoandro, ary ny mazava ho efa akaiky, nefa tamy ihany ny maizina.

¹³If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

¹³Raha mbola misy antenaiko, dia ny fiainan-tsi-hita fonenako ihany; Ao amin'ny maizina no hamelarako ny fandriako.[Heb. Sheola]

¹⁴I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

¹⁴Ny fasana no nantsoiko hoe: Raiko ianao; Ary ny kankana: Reniko sy anabaviko ianao.[Na: Ny fahalòvana]

¹⁵And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁵Fa aiza ary ny fanantenako? Ary iza no mahita azy?Midina any amin'ny vavahadin'ny fiainan-tsi-hita izany, raha mba hahita fitsaharana ao amin'ny vovoka aho.[Heb. Sheola]

¹⁶They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

¹⁶Midina any amin'ny vavahadin'ny fiainan-tsi-hita izany, raha mba hahita fitsaharana ao amin'ny vovoka aho.[Heb. Sheola]