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And my eye lodges in their provocations.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For You have hidden their heart from understanding, "" Therefore You do not exalt them.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For a portion he shows friendship, "" And the eyes of his sons are consumed.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, "" And I am a wonder before them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And my eye is dim from sorrow, "" And my members—all of them—as a shadow.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The upright are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the profane.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the righteous lays hold [on] his way, "" And the clean of hands adds strength.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But please return and come in, all of you, "" And I do not find a wise man among you.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My days have passed by, "" My plans have been broken off, "" The possessions of my heart!<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They appoint night for day, "" Light [is] near because of darkness.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, "" In darkness I have spread out my bed.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, "" If we may rest together on the dust.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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