| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 1“My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. | 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. |
| 2Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation? | 2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
| 3“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me? | 3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? |
| 4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them. | 4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
| 5He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail. | 5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
| 6“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit. | 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
| 7My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows. | 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. |
| 8Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite. | 8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
| 9Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger. | 9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
| 10“But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man 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 past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. | 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. |
| 12They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness. | 12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. |
| 13If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, | 13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. |
| 14If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’ | 14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
| 15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? | 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| 16Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?” | 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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