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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.” (Job 17:1-16 AV)
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