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Job 16

The Book of Job

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Chapter 17

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  My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.  

 

 

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  Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.  

 

 

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  Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.  

 

 

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  You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.  

 

 

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  As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.  

 

 

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  He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.  

 

 

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  My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.  

 

 

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  The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.  

 

 

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  Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.  

 

 

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10


 

  But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.  

 

 

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  My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.  

 

 

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12


 

  They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.  

 

 

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  If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;  

 

 

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14


 

  If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;  

 

 

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  Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?  

 

 

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  Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?  

 

 

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