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| | Job 17:1 | "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
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| | Job 17:2 | "Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
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| | Job 17:3 | "Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
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| | Job 17:4 | "For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.
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| | Job 17:5 | "He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
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| | Job 17:6 | "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
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| | Job 17:7 | "My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
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| | Job 17:8 | "The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
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| | Job 17:9 | "Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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| | Job 17:10 | "But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
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| | Job 17:11 | "My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.
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| | Job 17:12 | "They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
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| | Job 17:13 | "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
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| | Job 17:14 | If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';
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| | Job 17:15 | Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
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| | Job 17:16 | "Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
