Job Chapter 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 about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
Job 17:3 “Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?
Job 17:4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
Job 17:5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 17:6 “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
Job 17:7 My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
Job 17:8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
Job 17:9 Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10 But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11 My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
Job 17:12 They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
Job 17:13 If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
Job 17:14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Job 17:15 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
Job 17:16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”