# Job 17 
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1. “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. 
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2. Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. 
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3. “Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? 
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4. Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. 
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5. He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. 
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6. “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. 
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7. My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. 
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8. The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. 
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9. Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. 
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10. But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. 
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11. My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. 
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12. They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’ 
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13. If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, 
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14. if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ 
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15. where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? 
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16. Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?” 

(ESV)