Job 17
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- 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
- 2Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
- 3Make a pledge for me with yourself; who will shake hands with me?
- 4For you have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore you will not exalt them.
- 5He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
- 6He has made me also a byword of the people, and in the past I was like a tambourine.
- 7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my limbs are like a shadow.
- 8Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the hypocrite.
- 9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
- 10But as for you all, come back and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.
- 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
- 12They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
- 13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
- 14I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.'
- 15And where is now my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
- 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.