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Job 17 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:1 - “My spirit is broken,
My days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:2 - Are not mockers with me?
And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:3 - “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
Who is he who will shake hands with me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:4 - For You have hidden their heart from understanding;
Therefore You will not exalt them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:5 - He who speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:6 - “But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I have become one in whose face men spit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:7 - My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,
And all my members are like shadows.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:8 - Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:9 - Yet the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:10 - “But please, come back again, all of you,[fn]
For I shall not find one wise man among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:11 - My days are past,
My purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - They change the night into day;
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - If I wait for the grave as my house,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:14 - If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:15 - Where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16 - Will they go down to the gates of Sheol?
Shall we have rest together in the dust?”
NKJV Footnotes
Following some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate; Masoretic Text and Targum read all of them.
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For more information on this translation, see the NKJV Preface.

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