Job 17
Reading Job chapter 17 in the World English Bible, public-domain text from 2000.
Verses 1–10
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man amongst you.
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