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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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/job/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My spirit is broken,</p><p class="line2">my days are cut short,</p><p class="line2">the grave awaits me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Surely mockers surround me;</p><p class="line2">my eyes must dwell on their hostility.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.</p><p class="line2">Who else will put up security for me?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You have closed their minds to understanding;</p><p class="line2">therefore you will not let them triumph.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If anyone denounces their friends for reward,</p><p class="line2">the eyes of their children will fail.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“God has made me a byword to everyone,</p><p class="line2">a man in whose face people spit.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My eyes have grown dim with grief;</p><p class="line2">my whole frame is but a shadow.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The upright are appalled at this;</p><p class="line2">the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,</p><p class="line2">and those with clean hands will grow stronger.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“But come on, all of you, try again!</p><p class="line2">I will not find a wise man among you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My days have passed, my plans are shattered.</p><p class="line2">Yet the desires of my heart</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>turn night into day;</p><p class="line2">in the face of the darkness light is near.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If the only home I hope for is the grave,</p><p class="line2">if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’</p><p class="line2">and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>where then is my hope—</p><p class="line2">who can see any hope for me?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Will it go down to the gates of death?</p><p class="line2">Will we descend together into the dust?”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p 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