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"My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
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Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
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"Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?
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For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.
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He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.
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"But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.
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My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.
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Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
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Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.