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Job 17 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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