Job 17:1 (WEB)
"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

Job 17:2 (WEB)
Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.

Job 17:3 (WEB)
"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

Job 17:4 (WEB)
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.

Job 17:5 (WEB)
He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 17:6 (WEB)
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

Job 17:7 (WEB)
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

Job 17:8 (WEB)
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Job 17:9 (WEB)
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

Job 17:10 (WEB)
But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

Job 17:11 (WEB)
My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.

Job 17:12 (WEB)
They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

Job 17:13 (WEB)
If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Job 17:14 (WEB)
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

Job 17:15 (WEB)
Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

Job 17:16 (WEB)
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"
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