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Job - ch 17 v 1 - 16
- "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
- Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
- "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
- For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
- He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
- "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
- My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
- Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
- Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
- But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
- My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
- They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
- If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
- If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
- where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
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