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17:1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out; the grave awaits me. 17:2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility. 17:3 Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me? 17:4 Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them. 17:5 If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail. 17:6 He has made me a byword to people; I am the one in whose face they spit. 17:7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow. 17:8 Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless. 17:9 But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
17:10 “But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you. 17:11 My days have passed; my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart. 17:12 These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’ 17:13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 17:14 if I cry out to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ 17:15 where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it? 17:16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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