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And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.</p> <p class="reg"><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 a wonder before them I am.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And — dumb are they all.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.</p> <p class="reg"><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 couch.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>To corruption I have called: — ‘Thou [art] my father.’ ‘My mother’ and ‘my sister’ — to the worm.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/job/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>