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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?” |