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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 17 New Heart English Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NHEB</a> > Job 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/16.htm" title="Job 16">◄</a> Job 17 <a href="../job/18.htm" title="Job 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">New Heart English Bible</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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