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17:1  I am very weak and I will soon die. Then my friends will bury me in my grave.
17:2  All around me, people are laughing at me. I have to watch them as they insult me.
17:3  God, please help me to become free again. Nobody else will pay the price to do that for me.
17:4  You have stopped my friends from thinking properly. So do not allow them to win the argument.
17:5  People may turn against their friends to get things for themselves. If they do that, their children should become blind.
17:6  You have caused people to insult me, like that proverb says. People even spit at my face.
17:7  I have cried so much that my eyes have become weak. My body is so thin that I am like a shadow.
17:8  Good people are upset, when they see what is happening to me. They are angry with those who turn away from you.
17:9  Righteous people continue to do things that are right. People who do good things become stronger.
17:10  But you, my friends, come here! Try again to help me, all of you! I will not find a wise man among you.
17:11  I will not live for many more days. I will never do the things that I wanted to do.
17:12  My friends say, “It is day”, when it is still night. They do not know the difference between light and dark.
17:13  The only home that I hope to go to is my grave. I will lie down to sleep there in the dark.
17:14  I will say to the grave, “You are my father.” I will say to the worms that eat me, “Hello, my mother. Hello, my sister.”
17:15  I can hope for nothing that is better than that. No one can find anything better for me.
17:16  When I go to the world of dead people, all my hope will have finished. Everything that I had hoped for will lie with me in the dust.’