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title: Job 17
slug: kjv/job-17
createdAt: 2024-08-21T01:20:51.682Z
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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.