| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. | | The Book of Job | | 17 |
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct,
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the graves are ready for me. |
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Are there not mockers with me?
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And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
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Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee;
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who is he that will strike hands with me? |
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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
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therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends,
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even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
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He hath made me also a byword of the people;
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and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
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and all my members are as a shadow. |
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Upright men shall be astonished at this,
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and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
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The righteous also shall hold on his way,
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and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now:
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for I cannot find one wise man among you. |
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My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
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even the thoughts of my heart. |
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They change the night into day:
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the light is short because of darkness. |
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If I wait, the grave is mine house:
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I have made my bed in the darkness. |
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I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:
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to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
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And where is now my hope?
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As for my hope, who shall see it? |
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit,
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when our rest together is in the dust. |
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