Job Chapter 17 (ESV)

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undefined “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

undefined Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

undefined “Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?

undefined Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

undefined He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property — the eyes of his children will fail.

undefined “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

undefined My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

undefined The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

undefined Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

undefined But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

undefined My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

undefined They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

undefined If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

undefined if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

undefined where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

undefined Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

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