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

¹Duh moj je raztresen, dnevi mi dotekajo, grobovi me čakajo.

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

²Res zasmehljivci so pri meni, in oko moje mora gledati njih bridko žaljenje.

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

³Zastavi se, prosim, jamči zame pri sebi! kdo mi sicer v roko udari za poroštvo?

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

⁴Kajti njih srca si zaprl razumu, zato jim ne daš prevladovati.

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

⁵Če kdo ponuja prijatelje v plen, otrokom njegovim morajo oči shirati.

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

⁶On me je tudi postavil v prislovico ljudem, in obraz moj jim je v pljuvanje.

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

⁷In oko moje je potemnelo od nevolje, in kakor senca je slednji moj ud.

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

⁸Pošteni ostrme ob tem, in nedolžni se ujezi nad bogapozabnikom.

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

⁹A pravični bo vztrajal na poti svoji, in kdor je čistih rok, bo dobival vedno več moči.

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

¹⁰Ali vi vsi, le prihajajte zopet sem! modrega vendar ne najdem med vami.

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

¹¹Dnevi moji so minili, načrti so se mi izjalovili, kar sem jih gojil v srcu svojem.

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

¹²Noč mi izpreminjajo v dan, svetloba, pravijo, je blizu tam, kjer je tema.

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

¹³Ako čakam, da dobim v šeolu dom, ako sem si v temoti postlal ležišče,

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

¹⁴ako sem dejal grobu: Oče moj si! in črvadi: Mati si moja in sestra moja!

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

¹⁵kje je potem nada moja? da, nada moja, kdo jo bo gledal?Zaide doli do zapahov šeola, ko bomo vsi vkup počivali v prahu.

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

¹⁶Zaide doli do zapahov šeola, ko bomo vsi vkup počivali v prahu.