Job 17

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Job 17:1 My spirit is broken; / My days are extinct; / The graveyard is [ready] for me.
Job 17:2 Surely there are mockers with me, / And my eye lingers on their provocation.
Job 17:3 Lay down now a pledge for me with Yourself; / Who is he who will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4 For You have hidden their heart from insight; / Therefore You will not exalt [them.]
Job 17:5 He who denounces his friends for a share [of the profit taken,] / Even the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 17:6 But He has made me a byword of the people, / And I have become one on whom they may spit.
Job 17:7 And my eye has grown dim because of the sorrow, / And my members are all like a shadow.
Job 17:8 The upright are appalled at this, / And the innocent stir themselves up against the profane man.
Job 17:9 Yet the righteous man will hold fast to his way, / And he whose hands are clean will wax yet stronger.
Job 17:10 But all of you, come back now, / And I will not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11 My days have passed; broken are my plans, / The cherished thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12 They change night into day; / The light is near, [they say] in the face of darkness.
Job 17:13 If I wait for Sheol as my house; / If I spread my couch in the darkness;
Job 17:14 If I call out to the pit, You are my father; / [You are] my mother and my sister, to the worm;
Job 17:15 Where then is my hope? / Indeed, my hope, who will see it?
Job 17:16 It will go down to the bars of Sheol, / When, at the same time, [we have] rest in the dust.
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