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and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Set up now, pledge me with thee: who is he will strike for my hand?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For thou didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt not exalt them.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He will commence evils for a position, and the eyes of his sons shall be consumed.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The upright shall be astonished upon this, and the innocent Shall arouse himself against the profane.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But ye all shall turn back, and come ye now, and I shall not find a wise one among you.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My days passed away, my purposes were broken; 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 will set the night for day: the light being near from the face of darkness.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and 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 now my hope? and my hope who shall regard it?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to the dust.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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