The Holy Bible
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Job 17 : 1 - 16
Chapter 17
1 | "My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
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2 | Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
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3 | "Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?
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4 | For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.
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5 | He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.
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6 | "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.
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7 | My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.
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8 | Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
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9 | Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
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10 | "But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.
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11 | My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
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12 | They change the night into day; "The light is near,' they say, in the face of darkness.
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13 | If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,
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14 | If I say to corruption, "You are my father,' And to the worm, "You are my mother and my sister,'
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15 | Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?
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16 | Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?"
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