American Standard Version of 1901
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My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,The grave is ready for me.
Surely there are {Hebrew: mockery.}mockers with me,And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;Who is there that will strike hands with me?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
He that denounceth his friends for a {Hebrew: portion.}prey,Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
But he hath made me a byword of the people;And they spit in my face.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,And all my members are as a shadow.
Upright men shall be astonished at this,And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, come on now again; {Or, For I find not}And I shall not find a wise man among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off,Even the {Hebrew: possessions.}thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day:The light, say they, is near {Or, because of}unto the darkness.
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament {Or, with the lamentation, It is done; and say &c.}with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he {Or, depart from }remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
{Or, Prophesy ye not, they are ever prophesying, say they Hebrew: Drop &c. See Amos 7:16.}Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy {Or, of these things: their reproaches never cease}to these: reproaches shall not depart.
{Or, O thou that art named the house of Jacob}Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah {Or, impatient Hebrew: shortened.}straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
But {Hebrew: yesterday.}of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.
If a man walking {Or, in wind and falsehood}in a spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.
For when a few years are come,I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
{Or, Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him}Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope:Nevertheless I will {Hebrew: argue.}maintain my ways before him.
A man void of {Hebrew: heart.}understanding striketh hands,And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.
He that is surety for a stranger {Hebrew: shall be sore broken.}shall smart for it;But he that hateth {Hebrew: those that strike hands.}suretyship is secure.
Be thou not one of them that strike hands,Or of them that are sureties for debts.
And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up;And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed {Or, his cause}himself to him that judgeth righteously:
My face is red with weeping,And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;