📖 Job 17
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"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
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Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
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"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
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For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
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He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
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Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
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But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
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My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
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They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
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where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"