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Dawdlers! Who think about nothing! O you destroyers of the hearts of the people!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>You change the night into day; and you bring forth the light before the darkness is over.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, You are my mother and my sister.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Where is now my hope and my trust? As for my hope, who shall find it?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>They shall go down to the bottom of Sheol; they shall descend together into the dust.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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