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| | Job 17:1 | "My spirit is crushed, and I am near death. The grave is ready to receive me.
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| | Job 17:2 | I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
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| | Job 17:3 | "You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me.
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| | Job 17:4 | You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph.
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| | Job 17:5 | They denounce their companions for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.
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| | Job 17:6 | "God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.
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| | Job 17:7 | My eyes are dim with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.
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| | Job 17:8 | The upright are astonished when they see me. The innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
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| | Job 17:9 | The righteous will move onward and forward, and those with pure hearts will become stronger and stronger.
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| | Job 17:10 | "As for all of you, come back and try again! But I will not find a wise man among you.
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| | Job 17:11 | My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart's desires are broken.
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| | Job 17:12 | They say that night is day and day is night; how they pervert the truth!
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| | Job 17:13 | I might go to the grave and make my bed in darkness.
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| | Job 17:14 | And I might call the grave my father, and the worm my mother and my sister.
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| | Job 17:15 | But where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?
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| | Job 17:16 | No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!"
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