[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
