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# Job 17

[1](#verse-1) “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

[2](#verse-2) Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

[3](#verse-3) “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

[4](#verse-4) For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

[5](#verse-5) He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

[6](#verse-6) “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

[7](#verse-7) My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

[8](#verse-8) Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

[9](#verse-9) Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

[10](#verse-10) But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

[11](#verse-11) My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

[12](#verse-12) They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

[13](#verse-13) If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

[14](#verse-14) if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

[15](#verse-15) where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

[16](#verse-16) Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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