17 My ruach is broken, my yamim are extinct, the kevarim are ready for me.

² Does not hatulim (mockery) surround me? And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

³ Lay down an eravon (pledge) with Thee; who is he that will put up security for me?

⁴ For Thou hast hid their lev from seichel; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.

⁵ He that informs on re’im for chelek, even the eyes of his banim shall fail.

⁶ He hath made me also a mashal (byword) of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.

⁷ Mine eye also is dim by reason of ka’as, and all my members are like a tzel (shadow).

⁸ Yesharim shall be appalled at this and the naki (pure, innocent) shall stir up himself against the chanef (profane, irreligious).

⁹ The tzaddik also shall hold to his derech, and he whose yadayim are tahor shall grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But as for all you, do ye return, and come back now; for I cannot find one chacham among you.

¹¹ My yamim are past, my plans are broken, even the morashot (possessions, desires) of my lev.

¹² They change the lailah into yom; the ohr is near to choshech, say they.

¹³ If I wait, Sheol is mine bais; I have made my bed in the choshech.

¹⁴ I have said to Shachat, thou art avi; to the worm, thou art immi, and achoti.

¹⁵ And where is now my tikveh? As for my tikveh, who regards it?

¹⁶ Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we go down together into the dust?