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Job 17 (AMP)

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¹ MY SPIRIT is broken, my days are spent (snuffed out); the grave is ready for me. ² Surely there are mockers and mockery around me, and my eye dwells on their obstinacy, insults, and resistance. ³ Give me a pledge with Yourself ; who is there that will give security for me? ⁴ But their hearts You have closed to understanding; therefore You will not let them triumph . ⁵ He who denounces his friends a prey and get a share, the eyes of his children shall fail . ⁶ But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face. ⁷ My eye has grown dim because of grief, and all my members are like a shadow. ⁸ Upright men shall be astonished and appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the godless and polluted. ⁹ Yet shall the righteous (those upright and in right standing with God) hold to their ways, and he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. ¹⁰ But as for you, come on again, all of you, though I find not a wise man among you. ¹¹ My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated; even the thoughts (desires and possessions) of my heart . ¹² These extend from the night into the day, the light is short because of darkness. ¹³ But if I look to Sheol (the unseen state) as my abode, if I spread my couch in the darkness, ¹⁴ If I say to the grave and corruption, You are my father, and to the worm , You are my mother and my sister , ¹⁵ Where then is my hope? And if I have hope, who will see ? ¹⁶ shall go down to the bars of Sheol (the unseen state) when once there is rest in the dust.