Job 17:1 (ASV)
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is `ready' for me.

Job 17:2 (ASV)
Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

Job 17:3 (ASV)
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

Job 17:4 (ASV)
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt `them'.

Job 17:5 (ASV)
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 17:6 (ASV)
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

Job 17:7 (ASV)
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Job 17:8 (ASV)
Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Job 17:9 (ASV)
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

Job 17:10 (ASV)
But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

Job 17:11 (ASV)
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

Job 17:12 (ASV)
They change the night into day: The light, `say they', is near unto the darkness.

Job 17:13 (ASV)
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

Job 17:14 (ASV)
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, `Thou art' my mother, and my sister;

Job 17:15 (ASV)
Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Job 17:16 (ASV)
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
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