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You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

And Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. without my flesh I will see God;

Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.