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Job 17

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Job Seeks Hope

1 "My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;
The (F1)(C1)grave is ready for me.

2 "(C1)Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye (F1)gazes on their provocation.

3 "Establish, now, a pledge (C1)for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will clap my hand in pledge?

4 "For You have (C1)hidden their heart from insight,
Therefore You will not exalt them.

5 "He who (C1)informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The (C2)eyes of his children also will come to an end.

6 "But He has made me a (C1)byword of the people,
And I am (F1)one at whom men (C2)spit.

7 "My eye has also grown (C1)dim because of grief,
And all my (C2)members are as a shadow.

8 "The upright will be appalled at this,
And the (C1)innocent will stir up himself against the godless.

9 "Nevertheless (C1)the righteous will hold to his way,
And (C2)he who has clean hands will grow mightier and mightier.

10 "But come again all of (F1)you now,
For I (C1)do not find a wise man among you.

11 "My (C1)days are past; my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.

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

13 "If I hope for (C1)Sheol as my home,
I (F1)make my bed in the darkness;

14 If I call to the (C1)pit, 'You are my father';
To the (C2)worm, 'my mother and my sister';

15 Where now is (C1)my hope?
And who beholds my hope?

16 "(F1)Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together (C1)go down into the dust?"

 
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