3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5 He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
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 godless.
9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.