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He is wandering, for he seeks for bread. Where is it ? He knows that the day of darkness is at his hand.

Distress and pain terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the attack;

Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for his reward shall be vanity.

For the company of the ungodly shall be bleak; and fire shall devour the tents of bribery;

And You have plucked me; for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me; and it answers to my face.

I was at ease, but He has shattered me; yea, He has also taken hold on my neck and broken me to bits; and He has set me up as a target for Him.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his friend!

For years few in number will come; and I shall not return the way I shall go.

My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; graves are for me.

Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself; who is he who will strike my hand with me?

For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not exalt them .

He informs against friends for a share; even his son's eyes shall be consumed.

They set night for day; light is near in the face of darkness.

If I wait for Sheol as my house, I have spread out my bed in the darkness;

And where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

One tearing himself in his anger, shall the earth be forsaken for your sake? Or shall the rock move from its place?

For he is sent into a net by his own feet; and he is walking on a snare;

the pitfall is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him on the way.

Pity me! Pity me, you my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.

For I know my Redeemer is living, and He shall rise on the earth at the last;