4. Because You have closed their heart to understanding, therefore You will not exalt them.
5. If anyone denounces his friends for profit the eyes of his children will fail.
6. He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face people spit.
7. My eyes have grown dim with grief and all my limbs are like a shadow.
8. The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are stirred up against the ungodly.
9. But the righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10. “But turn, all of you, come now! I will not find a wise man among you.
11. My days have passed, my plans are torn apart. Yet the desires of my heart