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Old Testament
1 “My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
1 ΟΛΕΚΟΜΑΙ πνεύματι φερόμενος, δέομαι δὲ ταφῆς καὶ οὐ τυγχάνω.
2 Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
2 λίσσομαι κάμνων, καὶ τί ποιήσας;
3 “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?
3 ἔκλεψαν δέ μου τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἀλλότριοι. τίς ἐστιν οὗτος; τῇ χειρί μου συνδεθήτω.
4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.
4 ὅτι καρδίαν αὐτῶν ἔκρυψας ἀπὸ φρονήσεως, διὰ τοῦτο οὐ μὴ ὑψώσῃς αὐτούς.
5 He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.
5 τῇ μερίδι ἀναγγελεῖ κακίας, ὀφθαλμοὶ δὲ ἐφ᾿ υἱοῖς ἐτάκησαν.
6 “But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.
6 ἔθου δέ με θρύλημα ἐν ἔθνεσι, γέλως δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀπέβην·
7 My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.
7 πεπώρωνται γὰρ ἀπὸ ὀργῆς οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, πεπολιόρκημαι μεγάλως ὑπὸ πάντων.
8 Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
8 θαῦμα ἔσχεν ἀληθινοὺς ἐπὶ τούτῳ, δίκαιος δὲ ἐπὶ παρανόμῳ ἐπανασταίη·
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
9 σχοίη δὲ πιστὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδόν, καθαρὸς δὲ χεῖρας ἀναλάβοι θάρσος.
10 “But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.
10 οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ πάντες ἐρείδετε, καὶ δεῦτε δή, οὐ γὰρ εὑρίσκω ἐν ὑμῖν ἀληθές.
11 My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
11 αἱ ἡμέραι μου παρῆλθον ἐν βρόμῳ, ἐράγη δὲ τὰ ἄρθρα τῆς καρδίας μου.
12 They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
12 νύκτα εἰς ἡμέραν ἔθηκα, φῶς ἐγγὺς ἀπὸ προσώπου σκότους·
13 If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,
13 ἐὰν γὰρ ὑπομείνω, ᾅδης μου ὁ οἶκος, ἐν δὲ γνόφῳ ἔστρωταί μου ἡ στρωμνή.
14 If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
14 θάνατον ἐπεκαλεσάμην πατέρα μου εἶναι, μητέρα δέ μου καὶ ἀδελφὴν σαπρίαν.
15 Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?
15 ποῦ οὖν μου ἔτι ἐστὶν ἡ ἐλπίς; ἦ τὰ ἀγαθά μου ὄψομαι;
16 Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?”
16 ἦ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ εἰς ᾅδην καταβήσομαι, ἢ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ χώματος καταβησόμεθα;
NKJV translation