1 “My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me.
2 Surely mockery is with me, and my eye rests on their provocation.
3 Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand?
4 Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let them triumph.
5 He denounces friends for reward, so his children’s eyes will fail.
6 “And he has made me a proverb for the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
7 And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.