1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished --  graves [are] for me.
         
                                
                        2 If not -- mockeries [are] with me. And in their  provocations mine eye lodgeth.
         
                                
                        3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that  striketh hand with me?
         
                                
                        4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding,  Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
         
                                
                        5 For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his  sons are consumed.
         
                                
                        6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder  before them I am.
         
                                
                        7 And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow  all of them.