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