My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
1M'ahome aporɔ, me nna adum, adamena asiesie wɔn ho ama me.Under pastoral review
2Fɛwdifoɔ nni me nkyɛn anaa? na m'ani ntena wɔn ahyɛsoɔ mu anaa?Under pastoral review
3To hɔ seesei, fa me si awowasoɔ mu wɔ wo nkyɛn; hwan ne deɛ ɔne me bɛbɔ nsa?Under pastoral review
4Efisɛ wode wɔn akoma asie afiri nteaseɛ ho: ɛno enti worempagya wɔn.Under pastoral review
5Deɛ ɔka nnaadaasɛm kyerɛ ne nnamfonom no, ne mma ani mpo bɛfira.Under pastoral review
6Wayɛ me nnipa no anasɛm nso; na kane no na meyɛ sɛ akasaeɛ.Under pastoral review
7M'ani nso ayɛ kusuu ɛnam awerɛhoɔ nti, na m'akwaa nyinaa te sɛ sunsuma.Under pastoral review
8Ateneneefoɔ ho bɛdwiri wɔn wɔ yei ho, na deɛ ɔdi bem no bɛkanyan ne ho atia nyaatwomni.Under pastoral review
9Ɔteneneeni nso bɛkɔ so afa ne kwan so, na deɛ ne nsa ho te no bɛkɔ so anya ahoɔden.Under pastoral review
10Nanso mo nyinaa deɛ, monsane mmra, na mommra seesei: efisɛ menhunu onyansafoɔ baako wɔ mo mu.Under pastoral review
11Me nna atwam, me nhyehyɛeɛ abubu, m'akoma mu nsusuiɛ mpo.Under pastoral review
12Wɔsesa anadwo yɛ no awia: hann no yɛ tiaa ɛnam esum nti.Under pastoral review
13Sɛ metwɛn a, damena ne me fie: masiesie me mpa wɔ esum mu.Under pastoral review
14Maka akyerɛ porɔeɛ sɛ, Wone m'agya: na akyerɛ ɔsonsono sɛ, Wone me maame, ne me nuabaa.Under pastoral review
15Na m'anidasoɔ wɔ he seesei? m'anidasoɔ deɛ, hwan na ɔbɛhunu?Under pastoral review
16Wɔbɛsiane akɔ amena no akyi nnua ho, ɛberɛ a yɛbom home wɔ mfuturo mu.Under pastoral review