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56 lines
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# Job 17 (New King James Version)
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Job Prays for Relief
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##### Chapter 17
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###### 1 "My spirit is broken,
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My days are extinguished,
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The grave _is ready_ for me.
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###### 2 _Are_ not mockers with me?
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And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
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###### 3 "Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
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Who _is_ he _who_ will shake hands with me?
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###### 4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding;
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Therefore You will not exalt _them._
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###### 5 He who speaks flattery to _his_ friends,
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Even the eyes of his children will fail.
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###### 6 "But He has made me a byword of the people,
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And I have become one in whose face men spit.
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###### 7 My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,
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And all my members _are_ like shadows.
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###### 8 Upright _men_ are astonished at this,
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And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
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###### 9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way,
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And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
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###### 10 "But please, come back again, all of you,
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For I shall not find _one_ wise _man_ among you.
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###### 11 My days are past,
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My purposes are broken off,
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_Even_ the thoughts of my heart.
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###### 12 They change the night into day;
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'The light _is_ near,' _they say,_ in the face of darkness.
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###### 13 If I wait _for_ the grave _as_ my house,
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If I make my bed in the darkness,
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###### 14 If I say to corruption, 'You _are_ my father,'
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And to the worm, 'You _are_ my mother and my sister,'
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###### 15 Where then _is_ my hope?
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As for my hope, who can see it?
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###### 16 _Will_ they go down to the gates of Sheol?
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Shall _we have_ rest together in the dust?"
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