17 lines
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17 lines
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Job Chapter 17
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1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
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2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
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3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike 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 denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
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6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
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9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
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11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
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12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
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13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
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15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
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16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
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