1“My spirit is consumed.
2Surely there are mockers with me.
3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
4For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
5He who denounces his friends for plunder,
6“But he has made me a byword of the people.
7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
8Upright men will be astonished at this.
9Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
10But as for you all, come back.
11My days are past.
12They change the night into day,
13If I look for Sheol17:13 Sheol is the place of the dead. as my house,
14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
15where then is my hope?
16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,17:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.