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Job - ch 17 v 1 - 16
- My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.
- If not -- mockeries `are' with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
- Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
- For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
- For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
- And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
- And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
- Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
- And the righteous layeth hold `on' his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
- Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
- My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
- Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.
- If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
- To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.
- And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
- `To' the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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