¹רוחי חבלה ימי נזעכו קברים לי׃

¹“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

²אם לא התלים עמדי ובהמרותם תלן עיני׃

²Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

³שימה נא ערבני עמך מי הוא לידי יתקע׃

³“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

⁴כי לבם צפנת משכל על כן לא תרמם׃

⁴For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

⁵לחלק יגיד רעים ועיני בניו תכלנה׃

⁵He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁶והצגני למשל עמים ותפת לפנים אהיה׃

⁶“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

⁷ותכה מכעש עיני ויצרי כצל כלם׃

⁷My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

⁸ישמו ישרים על זאת ונקי על חנף יתערר׃

⁸Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

⁹ויאחז צדיק דרכו וטהר ידים יסיף אמץ׃

⁹Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ואולם כלם תשבו ובאו נא ולא אמצא בכם חכם׃

¹⁰But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ימי עברו זמתי נתקו מורשי לבבי׃

¹¹My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

¹²לילה ליום ישימו אור קרוב מפני חשך׃

¹²They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

¹³אם אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי׃

¹³If I look for Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

¹⁴לשחת קראתי אבי אתה אמי ואחתי לרמה׃

¹⁴If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

¹⁵ואיה אפו תקותי ותקותי מי ישורנה׃

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

¹⁶בדי שאל תרדנה אם יחד על עפר נחת׃

¹⁶Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , or descend together into the dust?”