Job:17-20

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* My breath is corrupt , my days are extinct , the graves are ready for me . * Are there not mockers with me ? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation ? * Lay down now , put me in a surety with thee ; who is he that will strike hands with me ? * For thou hast hid their heart from understanding : therefore shalt thou not exalt them . * He that speaketh flattery to his friends , even the eyes of his children shall fail . * He hath made me also a byword of the people ; and aforetime I was as a tabret . * Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow , and all my members are as a shadow . * Upright men shall be astonied at this , and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite . * The righteous also shall hold on his way , and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger . * But as for you all , do ye return , and come now : for I cannot 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 short because of darkness . * If I wait , the grave is mine house : I have made my bed in the darkness . * I have said to corruption , Thou art my father : to the worm , Thou art my mother , and my sister . * And where is now my hope ? as for my hope , who shall see it ? * They shall go down to the bars of the pit , when our rest together is in the dust . * Then answered Bildad the Shuhite , and said , * How long will it be ere ye make an end of words ? mark , and afterwards we will speak . * Wherefore are we counted as beasts , and reputed vile in your sight ? * He teareth himself in his anger : shall the earth be forsaken for thee ? and shall the rock be removed out of his place ? * Yea , the light of the wicked shall be put out , and the spark of his fire shall not shine . * The light shall be dark in his tabernacle , and his candle shall be put out with him . * The steps of his strength shall be straitened , and his own counsel shall cast him down . * For he is cast into a net by his own feet , and he walketh upon a snare . * The gin shall take him by the heel , and the robber shall prevail against him . * The snare is laid for him in the ground , and a trap for him in the way . * Terrors shall make him afraid on every side , and shall drive him to his feet . * His strength shall be hungerbitten , and destruction shall be ready at his side . * It shall devour the strength of his skin : even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength . * His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle , and it shall bring him to the king of terrors . * It shall dwell in his tabernacle , because it is none of his : brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation . * His roots shall be dried up beneath , and above shall his branch be cut off . * His remembrance shall perish from the earth , and he shall have no name in the street . * He shall be driven from light into darkness , and chased out of the world . * He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people , nor any remaining in his dwellings . * They that come after him shall be astonied at his day , as they that went before were affrighted . * Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked , and this is the place of him that knoweth not God . * Then Job answered and said , * How long will ye vex my soul , and break me in pieces with words ? * These ten times have ye reproached me : ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me . * And be it indeed that I have erred , mine error remaineth with myself . * If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me , and plead against me my reproach : * Know now that God hath overthrown me , and hath compassed me with his net . * Behold , I cry out of wrong , but I am not heard : I cry aloud , but there is no judgment . * He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass , and he hath set darkness in my paths . * He hath stripped me of my glory , and taken the crown from my head . * He hath destroyed me on every side , and I am gone : and mine hope hath he removed like a tree . * He hath also kindled his wrath against me , and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies . * His troops come together , and raise up their way against me , and encamp round about my tabernacle . * He hath put my brethren far from me , and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me . * My kinsfolk have failed , and my familiar friends have forgotten me . * They that dwell in mine house , and my maids , count me for a stranger : I am an alien in their sight . * I called my servant , and he gave me no answer ; I intreated him with my mouth . * My breath is strange to my wife , though I intreated for the children 's sake of mine own body . * Yea , young children despised me ; I arose , and they spake against me . * All my inward friends abhorred me : and they whom I loved are turned against me . * My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh , and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth . * Have pity upon me , have pity upon me , O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me . * Why do ye persecute me as God , and are not satisfied with my flesh ? * Oh that my words were now written ! oh that they were printed in a book ! * That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! * For I know that my redeemer liveth , and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth : * And though after my skin worms destroy this body , yet in my flesh shall I see God : * Whom I shall see for myself , and mine eyes shall behold , and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me . * But ye should say , Why persecute we him , seeing the root of the matter is found in me ? * Be ye afraid of the sword : for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword , that ye may know there is a judgment . * Then answered Zophar the Naamathite , and said , * Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer , and for this I make haste . * I have heard the check of my reproach , and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer . * Knowest thou not this of old , since man was placed upon earth , * That the triumphing of the wicked is short , and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment ? * Though his excellency mount up to the heavens , and his head reach unto the clouds ; * Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung : they which have seen him shall say , Where is he ? * He shall fly away as a dream , and shall not be found : yea , he shall be chased away as a vision of the night . * The eye also which saw him shall see him no more ; neither shall his place any more behold him . * His children shall seek to please the poor , and his hands shall restore their goods . * His bones are full of the sin of his youth , which shall lie down with him in the dust . * Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth , though he hide it under his tongue ; * Though he spare it , and forsake it not ; but keep it still within his mouth : * Yet his meat in his bowels is turned , it is the gall of asps within him . * He hath swallowed down riches , and he shall vomit them up again : God shall cast them out of his belly . * He shall suck the poison of asps : the viper 's tongue shall slay him . * He shall not see the rivers , the floods , the brooks of honey and butter . * That which he laboured for shall he restore , and shall not swallow it down : according to his substance shall the restitution be , and he shall not rejoice therein . * Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor ; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not ; * Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly , he shall not save of that which he desired . * There shall none of his meat be left ; therefore shall no man look for his goods . * In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits : every hand of the wicked shall come upon him . * When he is about to fill his belly , God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him , and shall rain it upon him while he is eating . * He shall flee from the iron weapon , and the bow of steel shall strike him through . * It is drawn , and cometh out of the body ; yea , the glittering sword cometh out of his gall : terrors are upon him . * All darkness shall be hid in his secret places : a fire not blown shall consume him ; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle . * The heaven shall reveal his iniquity ; and the earth shall rise up against him . * The increase of his house shall depart , and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath . * This is the portion of a wicked man from God , and the heritage appointed unto him by God . * But Job answered and said ,

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