The Book of Job 17

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1 My breath is corrupt my days are extinct the graves are ready for me ⚑

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

3 Lay down now put me in a surety with thee who is he that will strike hands with me ⚑

4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding therefore shalt thou not exalt them ⚑

5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of his children shall fail ⚑

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

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

8 Upright men shall be astonied at this and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite ⚑

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

10 But as for you all do ye return and come now for I cannot find one wise man among you ⚑

11 My days are past my purposes are broken off even the thoughts of my heart ⚑

12 They change the night into day the light is short because of darkness ⚑

13 If I wait the grave is mine house I have made my bed in the darkness ⚑

14 I have said to corruption Thou art my father to the worm Thou art my mother and my sister ⚑

15 And where is now my hope as for my hope who shall see it ⚑

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

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain