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The American Standard Version of 1901

Job 17

1

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.

2

Surely there are 1 mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation. 1) Heb mockery

3

Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

4

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

5

He that denounceth his friends for a 1 prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. 1) Heb portion

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But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

7

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

8

Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

9

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

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But as for you all, come on now again; 1 And I shall not find a wise man among you. 1) Or For I find not

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My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the 1 thoughts of my heart. 1) Heb possessions

12

They change the night into day: The light, say they , is near 1 unto the darkness. 1) Or because of

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If I 1 look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 1) Or hope, Sheol is my house; I have spread...I have said...And where now is my hope?

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If I have said to 1 corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister; 1) Or the pit

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Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

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It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.



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