My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

My spirit has been destroyed. My days have leapt away. Graves await me

Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

even without mockers against me and my eyes constantly looking on at their taunting.

Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself: who else is there that will strike hands with me?

Give [heart] to me, I pray You. Give me surety [(by "handshake") to dispute] with You. [For] who is there [among them] to shake my hand [(in friendship)]?

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

For You have hid their hearts from wisdom, wherefore You will not be exalted [through them].

They are as one who invites friends to have a share, whilst the eyes of his children fail.

Friends will flatter each other and [(as a result)] the eyes of their sons will fail.

He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I shall be a horror to every face.

[(This would be my dispute with the L rd:)] He has set me up as a parable for the peoples. I am become a mockery to [their] faces.

My eye also is dim by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.

My eye is dimmed with anger and all of my limbs are like shadows.

Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs up himself against the godless.

Let the upright be astounded over this, and let the clean one [(hearing of these mockeries)] be aroused against the flatterer.

Yet the righteous holds on his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

And let the righteous one hold fast to his way [(to oppose the flatterers)] and [let] the pure of hand add courage.

But as for you all, return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

But all of you [(my friends)] turn about and come now [(to learn the truth)]; but I find no wise one among you [(in your mocking of my plaint)].

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

My days [(of good)] have passed; my thoughts [(my expectations of continued good)] have been cut off, the bequests of my heart.

They change the night into day, saying, The light is near when the darkness is at hand.

They [(their mockeries)] change day to night. The light [of the day seems] short [to me] because of the darkness [(of my afflictions)].

If I look to She᾽ol as my home: if I spread my couch in the darkness:

Since I hope for the pit as my home, I have spread my bed in darkness [i.e., the grave].

if I say to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worm. Thou art my mother and my sister;

To the pit I have called: "You are my father"; "my mother" and "my sister" to the worms.

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

Where is [(the realization of)] my hope, and who will see my hope [(to hurry it to me)]?

Will they go down with me to the bars of She᾽ol? shall we descend together to the dust?

Would that they [(my limbs)] which [are destined to] descend to the pit would [(soon)] lie on the dust [in death]!