Job:17

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* "My spirit is broken , My days are extinguished , The grave is ready for me . * Are not mockers with me ? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation ? * "Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself . Who is he who will shake hands with me ? * For You have hidden their heart from understanding ; Therefore You will not exalt them . * He who speaks flattery to his friends , Even the eyes of his children will fail . * "But He has made me a byword of the people , And I have become one in whose face men spit . * My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow , And all my members are like shadows . * Upright men are astonished at this , And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite . * Yet the righteous will hold to his way , And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger . * "But please , come back again , all of you , For I shall not find one wise man among you . * My days are past , My purposes are broken off , Even the thoughts of my heart . * They change the night into day ; "The light is near ,' they say , in the face of darkness . * If I wait for the grave as my house , If I make my bed in the darkness , * If I say to corruption , "You are my father ,' And to the worm , "You are my mother and my sister ,' * Where then is my hope ? As for my hope , who can see it ? * Will they go down to the gates of Sheol ? Shall we have rest together in the dust ?"

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