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The tomb is ready for me!<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Because there is no falsehood with me, and in their bitterness my spirit spends the night<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Set now my tent with you! Why is this entrusted into my hands?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Because you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore they shall be exalted in their deception<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>And a friend will be lifted up over his friend, also the eyes of their sons will be darkened<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>He raised up the Ruler of the nations, and he created a veil over their faces <p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>My eye aches from passion and all my senses are as a shadow<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>The upright will be amazed for this, and the innocent one will be emptied out for the guilty<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>The righteous shall hold his way and will grasp firmly, and he whose hands are clean will add to power<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>However, behold, all of you returned and you turned and you came to me, and I did not find among you one who is wise<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Passers of days! Aborters of ideas! Destroyers of the hearts of people!<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>You put the night for day, and you sacrifice the light to the darkness<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>If I shall lie in ambush, my house is in Sheol, and I deserve my bed in darkness<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>To destruction I cried to the worm: ‘you are my father!’, and ‘my mother and my sister!’<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>‘Where is my hope and my trust from now on? And my hope, who shall find it?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Into the bottom to Sheol you will go down!’ And together to the dust they shall descend!” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>