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

¹MI ALIENTO está corrompido, acórtanse mis días, Y me está aparejado el sepulcro.

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

²No hay conmigo sino escarnecedores, En cuya acrimonia se detienen mis ojos.

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

³Pon ahora, dame fianza para litigar contigo: ¿Quién tocará ahora mi mano?

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

⁴Porque á éstos has tú escondido su corazón de inteligencia: Por tanto, no los ensalzarás.

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

⁵El que denuncia lisonjas á sus prójimos, Los ojos de sus hijos desfallezcan.

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

⁶El me ha puesto por parábola de pueblos, Y delante de ellos he sido como tamboril.

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

⁷Y mis ojos se oscurecieron de desabrimiento, Y mis pensamientos todos son como sombra.

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

⁸Los rectos se maravillarán de esto, Y el inocente se levantará contra el hipócrita.

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

⁹No obstante, proseguirá el justo su camino, Y el limpio de manos aumentará la fuerza.

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

¹⁰Mas volved todos vosotros, y venid ahora, Que no hallaré entre vosotros sabio.

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

¹¹Pasáronse mis días, fueron arrancados mis pensamientos, Los designios de mi corazón.

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

¹²Pusieron la noche por día, Y la luz se acorta delante de las tinieblas.

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

¹³Si yo espero, el sepulcro es mi casa: Haré mi cama en las tinieblas.

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

¹⁴A la huesa tengo dicho: Mi padre eres tú; A los gusanos: Mi madre y mi hermana.

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

¹⁵¿Dónde pues estará ahora mi esperanza? Y mi esperanza ¿quién la verá?

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

¹⁶A los rincones de la huesa descenderán, Y juntamente descansarán en el polvo.