| 章 |
| 17:1 |
My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
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| 17:2 |
Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
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| 17:3 |
"Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there that will give surety for me?
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| 17:4 |
Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
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| 17:5 |
Those who denounce friends for reward-- the eyes of their children will fail.
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| 17:6 |
"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
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| 17:7 |
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
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| 17:8 |
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
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| 17:9 |
Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they that have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
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| 17:10 |
But you, come back now, all of you, and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
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| 17:11 |
My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
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| 17:12 |
They make night into day; 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'
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| 17:13 |
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
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| 17:14 |
if I say to the Pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'
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| 17:15 |
where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
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| 17:16 |
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
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