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.
         
                                
                        8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent  against the profane Stirreth himself up.
         
                                
                        9 And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean  of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.