11“My days are past, my plans are torn apart,
         Even the wishes of my heart.

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

13“If I look for Sheol as my home,
         I make my bed in the darkness;

14If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
         To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

15Where now is my hope?
         And who regards my hope?

16“Will it go down with me to Sheol?
         Shall we together go down into the dust?”

NASB ©1995