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Job 17 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is ready for me.
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Surely there are mockers with me,
And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
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Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;
Who is there that will strike hands with me?
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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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He that denounceth his friends for a prey,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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But he hath made me a byword of the people;
And they spit in my face.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
And all my members are as a shadow.
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Upright men shall be astonished at this,
And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
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Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,
And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
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But as for you all, come on now again;
And I shall not find a wise man among you.
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My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.
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They change the night into day:
The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
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If I look for Sheol as my house;
If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
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If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father;
To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
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Where then is my hope?
And as for my hope, who shall see it?
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It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,
When once there is rest in the dust.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
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