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Job 17

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1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.TOSKJob 17:1

2 Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.TOSKJob 17:2

3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?TOSKJob 17:3

4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.TOSKJob 17:4

5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.TOSKJob 17:5

6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.TOSKJob 17:6

7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.TOSKJob 17:7

8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.TOSKJob 17:8

9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.TOSKJob 17:9

10 But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.TOSKJob 17:10

11 My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.TOSKJob 17:11

12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.TOSKJob 17:12

13 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,TOSKJob 17:13

14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’TOSKJob 17:14

15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?TOSKJob 17:15

16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”TOSKJob 17:16