1:
My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.
2:
I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.
3:
Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.
4:
Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.
5:
He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.
6:
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
7:
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
8:
The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.
9:
And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10:
Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
11:
My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
12:
They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
13:
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
14:
If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
15:
Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
16:
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?