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Job 17 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job 17:1My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Job 17:2Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
Job 17:3"Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?
Job 17:4Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.
Job 17:5He 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 17:7My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
Job 17:8Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
Job 17:9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
Job 17:12They make night into day; 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
Job 17:14if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'
Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
Job 17:16Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
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