4 "Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
4 You have closed their minds to understanding,therefore You will not honor them.
4 “But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].
5 Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail.
5 “He who (E)informs against friends for a share of the spoil,The (F)eyes of his children also will languish.
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
5 If a man informs on his friends for a price,the eyes of his children will fail.
5 “He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.
7 My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
7 My eyes have grown dim from grief,and my whole body has become but a shadow.
7 “My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless.
8 “The upright will be appalled at this,And the (K)innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
8 “The upright will be [astonished and] appalled at this,And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted.
9 But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger."
9 “Nevertheless (L)the righteous will hold to his way,And (M)he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
11 My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
11 My days have slipped by;my plans have been ruined,even the things dear to my heart.
11 “My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;The wishes of my heart [are broken].
12 They have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.'
12 “They make night into day, saying,‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
12 “These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
13 "If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
13 If I await Sheol as my home,spread out my bed in darkness,
13 “But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,If I make my bed in the darkness,
14 if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!'
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
14 If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’
16 Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
16 “Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?Shall we go down together in the dust?”
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