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 rebellion ? * Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself . Who is he who will strike 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 shall 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 take hold on his way , and he who has clean hands shall increase strength . * But please , return and come back , all of you , for I do not find one wise man among you . * My days have past , my plans have been torn apart , even the thoughts of my heart . * They set the night for 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 have said 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 shall see it ? * They shall go down to the gates of Sheol ; we shall have rest together in the dust .

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