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17:1  “My spirit is broken. My days are gone. The grave is ready for me.
17:2  For sure those with me make fun of me. My eyes see how they laugh at me.
17:3  “Promise that You will hear me. Who is there that will trust me?
17:4  For You have kept their heart from understanding, so You will not honor them.
17:5  If one speaks against friends to get money, the eyes of his children also will become weak.
17:6  “But He has made me an object of shame to the people. Men spit on me.
17:7  My eyes have become weak with sorrow. All the parts of my body are like a shadow.
17:8  Men who are right and good will be surprised and afraid at this. He who is without guilt will be moved to go against the sinful.
17:9  But the one who is right with God will hold to his way. And he who has clean hands will become stronger and stronger.
17:10  But all of you try again, and I will not find a wise man among you.
17:11  My days are past. My plans are torn apart, even the wishes of my heart.
17:12  They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,’ when there is darkness.
17:13  If I look for the place of the dead as my home, I make my bed in the darkness.
17:14  If I say to the grave, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother and my sister,’
17:15  then where is my hope? Who sees hope for me?
17:16  Will it go down with me to the place of the dead? Will we go down together into the dust?”