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Chapter 17

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Job 17:1

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

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Job 17:2

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

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Job 17:3

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

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Job 17:4

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

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Job 17:5

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

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Job 17:6

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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Job 17:7

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

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Job 17:8

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

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Job 17:9

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

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Job 17:10

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

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Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

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Job 17:12

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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Job 17:13

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

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Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

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Job 17:15

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

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Job 17:16

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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KJV with Apocrypha

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Reading language: English · Original language (catalog): Hebrew / Aramaic

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42 chapter/reading unit(s) · 1070 nonempty passage record(s).

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