^{10 Ref} I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

^{11 Ref} I said, I shall not see Jehovah, `even' Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

^{12 Ref} My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

^{13 Ref} I quieted `myself' until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

^{14 Ref} Like a swallow `or' a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail `with looking' upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

^{15 Ref} What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

^{16 Ref} O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

^{17 Ref} Behold, `it was' for `my' peace `that' I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

^{18 Ref} For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

^{19 Ref} The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

^{20 Ref} Jehovah is `ready' to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.

^{21 Ref} Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

^{22 Ref} Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?