| 章 |
| 17:1 |
"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is [ready] for me.
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| 17:2 |
"Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
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| 17:3 |
"Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Thyself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
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| 17:4 |
"For Thou hast kept their heart from understanding; Therefore Thou wilt not exalt [them].
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| 17:5 |
"He who informs against friends for a share [of the spoil], The eyes of his children also shall languish.
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| 17:6 |
"But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
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| 17:7 |
"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
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| 17:8 |
"The upright shall be appalled at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
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| 17:9 |
"Nevertheless the righteous shall hold to his way, And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
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| 17:10 |
"But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
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| 17:11 |
"My days are past, my plans are torn apart, [Even] the wishes of my heart.
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| 17:12 |
"They make night into day, [saying], 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
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| 17:13 |
"If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
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| 17:14 |
If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';
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| 17:15 |
Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
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| 17:16 |
"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
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