| International Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me! | 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. |
| 2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night. | 2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
| 3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor? | 3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? |
| 4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph. | 4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
| 5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail. | 5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
| 6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face. | 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
| 7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow. | 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. |
| 8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless. | 8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
| 9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger." | 9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
| 10"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you. | 10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. |
| 11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires. | 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. |
| 12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.' | 12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. |
| 13"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, | 13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. |
| 14if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!' | 14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
| 15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? | 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| 16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?" | 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. |
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