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Job 16

The Book of Job

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Chapter 17

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  'My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.  

 

 

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  Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.  

 

 

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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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  For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.  

 

 

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  He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.  

 

 

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  'But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.  

 

 

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  My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.  

 

 

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  Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.  

 

 

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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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10


 

  But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.  

 

 

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  My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.  

 

 

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12


 

  They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.  

 

 

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  If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,  

 

 

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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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  Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?  

 

 

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  Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?'  

 

 

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