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Job 17

Job Says He Has Become a Byword

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"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The  1 agrave is ready for me.

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aSurely mockers are with me, And my eye  1gazes on their provocation.

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"Lay down, now, a pledge  afor me with Yourself; Who is there that will  1be my guarantor?

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"For You have  1 akept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.

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"He who  ainforms against friends for a share of the spoil, The  beyes of his children also will languish.

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"But He has made me a  abyword of the people, And I am  1one at whom men  bspit.

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"My eye has also grown  adim because of grief, And all my  bmembers are as a shadow.

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"The upright will be appalled at this, And the  ainnocent will stir up himself against the godless.

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"Nevertheless  athe righteous will hold to his way, And  bhe who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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"But come again all of  1you now, For I  ado not find a wise man among you.

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"My  adays are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.

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"They make night into day, saying, `The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.

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"If I look for  aSheol as my home, I  1make my bed in the darkness;

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If I call to the  apit, `You are my father'; To the  bworm, `my mother and my sister';

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Where now is  amy hope? And who regards my hope?

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1Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together  ago down into the dust?"



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