2 Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation?
3 Lay down now a pledge, be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
4 For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them.
5 He that betrayeth friends for a prey--even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
7 And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;