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Job 17:1
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"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
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Job 17:2
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Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.
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Job 17:3
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"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
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Job 17:4
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For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.
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Job 17:5
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He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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Job 17:6
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"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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Job 17:7
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My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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Job 17:8
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Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
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Job 17:9
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Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
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Job 17:10
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But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
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Job 17:11
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My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.
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Job 17:12
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They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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Job 17:13
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If I look for She'ol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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Job 17:14
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If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
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Job 17:15
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Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
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Job 17:16
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Shall it go down with me to the gates of She'ol, Or descend together into the dust?"
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