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Job 17

King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible

17:1
My breath is corrupt (note: Or, my spirit is spent), my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue (note: Heb. lodge) in their provocation?
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17:3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime (note: Or, before them) I was as a tabret.
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17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members (note: Or, my thoughts) are as a shadow.
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17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger (note: Heb. shall add strength) and stronger.
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17:10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts (note: Heb. the possessions) of my heart.
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17:12
They change the night into day: the light is short (note: Heb. near) because of darkness.
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17:13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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17:14
I have said (note: Heb. cried, or called) to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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