| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me! | 1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. |
| 2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night. | 2Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. |
| 3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor? | 3“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? |
| 4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph. | 4Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. |
| 5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail. | 5He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. |
| 6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face. | 6“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. |
| 7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow. | 7My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. |
| 8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless. | 8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. |
| 9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger." | 9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. |
| 10"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you. | 10But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. |
| 11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires. | 11My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. |
| 12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.' | 12They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’ |
| 13"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, | 13If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, |
| 14if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!' | 14if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ |
| 15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? | 15where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? |
| 16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?" | 16Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?” |
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