Job 17:1WEB
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
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Job 17:1WEB
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
Job 17:2WEB
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Job 17:3WEB
“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4WEB
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
Job 17:5WEB
He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 17:6WEB
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Job 17:7WEB
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Job 17:8WEB
Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
Job 17:9WEB
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10WEB
But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11WEB
My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12WEB
They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
Job 17:13WEB
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 17:14WEB
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
Job 17:15WEB
where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
Job 17:16WEB
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.