Job:17

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* My spirit is broken , my days are extinct , the grave is ready for me . * Surely there are mockers about me , and my eye dwells on their provocation . * "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself ; who is there that will give surety for me ? * Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding , therefore thou wilt not let them triumph . * He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property , the eyes of his children will fail . * "He has made me a byword of the peoples , and I am one before whom men spit . * My eye has grown dim from grief , and all my members are like a shadow . * Upright men are appalled at this , and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless . * Yet the righteous holds to his way , and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger . * But you , come on again , all of you , and I shall not find a wise man among you . * My days are past , my plans are broken off , the desires of my heart . * They make night into day ; `he light ,' they say , "is near to the darkness .' * If I look for Sheol as my house , if I spread my couch in darkness , * if I say to the pit , `You are my father ,' and to the worm , `My mother ,' or `My sister ,' * where then is my hope ? Who will see my hope ? * Will it go down to the bars of Sheol ? Shall we descend together into the dust ?"

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