17:3 I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.
17:4 You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.
17:5 In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it.
17:6 And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.
17:7 My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
17:8 Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless.
17:9 Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.
17:10 But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise.
17:11 My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.
17:12 But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness.
17:13 My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.
17:14 I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.
17:15 Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?
17:16 Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.
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