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Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?

Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?

For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].

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Surely mockers(A) surround me;(B)
    my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

“Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.(C)
    Who else will put up security(D) for me?(E)
You have closed their minds to understanding;(F)
    therefore you will not let them triumph.

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