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my days are extinct;</span><br /><span class="indent">the graveyard is ready for me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Surely there are mockers about me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my eye dwells on their provocation.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Lay down a pledge for me with you;</span><br /><span class="indent">who is there who will put up security for me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,</span><br /><span class="indent">therefore you will not let them triumph.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—</span><br /><span class="indent">the eyes of his children will fail.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“He has made me a byword of the peoples,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I am one before whom men spit.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My eye has grown dim from vexation,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all my members are like a shadow.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The upright are appalled at this,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet the righteous holds to his way,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But you, come on again, all of you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I shall not find a wise man among you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My days are past; my plans are broken off,</span><br /><span class="indent">the desires of my heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They make night into day:</span><br /><span class="indent">‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If I hope for Sheol as my house,</span><br /><span class="indent">if I make my bed in darkness,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’</span><br /><span class="indent">and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">where then is my hope?</span><br /><span class="indent">Who will see my hope?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?</span><br /><span class="indent">Shall we descend together into the dust?”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Is rest to be found together in the dust?">b</a></sup></span></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Is rest to be found together in the dust?</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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