³ “Establish, now, a pledge ^(C)for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will clap my hand in pledge?
⁴ For You have ^(D)hidden their heart from insight,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
⁵ He who ^(E)informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The ^(F)eyes of his children also will come to an end.

⁶ “But He has made me a ^(G)byword of the people,
And I am ^[c]one at whom men ^(H)spit.
⁷ My eye has also grown ^(I)dim because of grief,
And all my ^(J)members are as a shadow.
⁸ The upright will be appalled at this,
And the ^(K)innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
⁹ Nevertheless ^(L)the righteous will hold to his way,
And ^(M)he who has clean hands will grow mightier and mightier.
¹⁰ But come again all of ^[d]you now,
For I ^(N)do not find a wise man among you.
¹¹ My ^(O)days are past; my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.
¹² They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
¹³ If I hope for ^(P)Sheol as my home,
I ^[e]make my bed in the darkness;
¹⁴ If I call to the ^(Q)pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the ^(R)worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
¹⁵ Where now is ^(S)my hope?
And who beholds my hope?
^16 [f]Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together ^(T)go down into the dust?”