3 “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.Who is he who will shake hands with me?
4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding;Therefore You will not exalt them.
5 He who speaks flattery to his friends,Even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 “But He has made me a byword of the people,And I have become one in whose face men spit.
7 My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,And all my members are like shadows.
8 Upright men are astonished at this,And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way,And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.