1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them . 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. 8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
1 spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur
et solum mihi superest sepulchrum
2 non peccavi et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus
3 libera me et pone iuxta te
et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me
4 cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina
et propterea non exaltabuntur
5 praedam pollicetur sociis et oculi filiorum eius deficient
6 posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi
et exemplum sum coram eis
7 caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus
et membra mea quasi in nihili redacta sunt
8 stupebunt iusti super hoc
et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur
9 et tenebit iustus viam suam
et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem
10 igitur vos omnes convertimini et venite
et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem
11 dies mei transierunt
cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum
12 noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem
13 si sustinuero infernus domus mea est
in tenebris stravi lectulum meum
14 putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus
15 ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea
et patientiam meam quis considerat
16 in profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea
putasne saltim ibi erit requies mihi