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Job 17
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| 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. |
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| 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their
provocation? |
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| 17:3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike
hands with me? |
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| 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not
exalt them. |
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| 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children
shall fail. |
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| 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a
tabret. |
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| 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a
shadow. |
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| 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up
himself against the hypocrite. |
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| 17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands
shall be stronger and stronger. |
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| 17:10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise
man among you. |
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| 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my
heart. |
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| 17:12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. |
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| 17:13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. |
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| 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my
mother, and my sister. |
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| 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
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| 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in
the dust.
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