1 GLT «رُوحِي تَلِفَتْ. أَيَّامِي ٱنْطَفَأَتْ. إِنَّمَا ٱلْقُبُورُ لِي. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 GLT «لَوْلَا ٱلْمُخَاتِلُونَ عِنْدِي، وَعَيْنِي تَبِيتُ عَلَى مُشَاجَرَاتِهِمْ. BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 GLT كُنْ ضَامِنِي عِنْدَ نَفْسِكَ. مَنْ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي يُصَفِّقُ يَدِي؟ BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 GLT لِأَنَّكَ مَنَعْتَ قَلْبَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلْفِطْنَةِ، لِأَجْلِ ذَلِكَ لَا تَرْفَعُهُمُ. BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 GLT ٱلَّذِي يُسَلِّمُ ٱلْأَصْحَابَ لِلسَّلْبِ، تَتْلَفُ عُيُونُ بَنِيهِ. BSB BSB: If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 GLT أَوْقَفَنِي مَثَلًا لِلشُّعُوبِ، وَصِرْتُ لِلْبَصْقِ فِي ٱلْوَجْهِ. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 GLT كَلَّتْ عَيْنِي مِنَ ٱلْحُزْنِ، وَأَعْضَائِي كُلُّهَا كَٱلظِّلِّ. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 GLT يَتَعَجَّبُ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمُونَ مِنْ هَذَا، وَٱلْبَرِئُ يَنْتَهِضُ عَلَى ٱلْفَاجِرِ. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 GLT أَمَّا ٱلصِّدِّيقُ فَيَسْتَمْسِكُ بِطَرِيقِهِ، وَٱلطَّاهِرُ ٱلْيَدَيْنِ يَزْدَادُ قُوَّةً. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 GLT «وَلَكِنِ ٱرْجِعُوا كُلُّكُمْ وَتَعَالَوْا، فَلَا أَجِدُ فِيكُمْ حَكِيمًا. BSB BSB: But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11 GLT أَيَّامِي قَدْ عَبَرَتْ. مَقَاصِدِي، إِرْثُ قَلْبِي، قَدِ ٱنْتَزَعَتْ. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 GLT يَجْعَلُونَ ٱللَّيْلَ نَهَارًا، نُورًا قَرِيبًا لِلظُّلْمَةِ. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 GLT إِذَا رَجَوْتُ ٱلْهَاوِيَةَ بَيْتًا لِي، وَفِي ٱلظَّلَامِ مَهَّدْتُ فِرَاشِي، BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 GLT وَقُلْتُ لِلْقَبْرِ: أَنْتَ أَبِي، وَلِلدُّودِ: أَنْتَ أُمِّي وَأُخْتِي، BSB BSB: and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 GLT فَأَيْنَ إِذًا آمَالِي؟ آمَالِي، مَنْ يُعَايِنُهَا؟ BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 GLT تَهْبِطُ إِلَى مَغَالِيقِ ٱلْهَاوِيَةِ إِذْ تَرْتَاحُ مَعًا فِي ٱلتُّرَابِ». BSB BSB: Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.