1“My ◄life/time to live► is almost ended; I have no strength left;
2Those who are around me are making fun of me;
3“God, it is as though I am in prison;
4You have prevented my friends from understanding what is true about me;
5Our ancestors often said, ‘It often happens that when someone betrays his friends in order to get some of their property,
6“But now people use that saying of our ancestors when they talk about me;
7◄My sight has become dim/I cannot see well► because I am extremely sad,
8Those who say that they are good/righteous are shocked when they see what has happened to me,
9Those who claim that they are righteous will continue to do what they think is right,
10“But even if all of those people came and stood in front of me,
11My ◄life/time to live► is almost ended; I have not been able to do the things that I confidently expected to do;
12My friends do not know when it is night and when it is day;
13If my home will be the place where dead people are,
14I may say to the grave, ‘You will be like a father to me,’
15But if I say those things, ◄will there be anything good that I can confidently expect to happen to me?/there will be nothing good that I can confidently expect to happen to me.► [RHQ]
16After I descend to the place where the dead are, ◄will I be able to confidently expect anything good there?/I certainly will not be able to confidently expect anything good there.► [RHQ]