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Job 17 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job 17:1"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
Job 17:2Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.
Job 17:3"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.
Job 17:5He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 17:6"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Job 17:7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Job 17:8Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
Job 17:13If I look for She'ol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
Job 17:15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:16Shall it go down with me to the gates of She'ol, Or descend together into the dust?"
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