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My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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