⁸ You have taken from me my closest friends^(A)
    and have made me repulsive to them.
I am confined^(B) and cannot escape;^(C)
9     my eyes^(D) are dim with grief.

I call^(E) to you, Lord, every day;
    I spread out my hands^(F) to you.
¹⁰ Do you show your wonders to the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you?^(G)
11 Is your love declared in the grave,
    your faithfulness^(H) in Destruction^[a]?
¹² Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
    or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

²⁵ Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;
    rebuke the discerning,^(A) and they will gain knowledge.^(B)

²⁶ Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother^(C)
    is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

²⁷ Stop listening to instruction, my son,^(D)
    and you will stray from the words of knowledge.