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Job 17 :: King James Version (KJV)

Job 17:1

Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

Job 17:2

Job 17:2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Job 17:3

Job 17:3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Job 17:4

Job 17:4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Job 17:5

Job 17:5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 17:6

Job 17:6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Job 17:7

Job 17:7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Job 17:8

Job 17:8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

Job 17:9

Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 17:10

Job 17:10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

Job 17:11

Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

Job 17:12

Job 17:12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Job 17:13

Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Job 17:14

Job 17:14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Job 17:15

Job 17:15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Job 17:16

Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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