Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?
Job 17:3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4
For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
Job 17:5
He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 17:6
He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job 17:7
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10
But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.