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17:1  “My spirit is spent, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
17:2  Are there not mockers with me? And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
17:3  “Lay it down now, give me a surety with Thee. Who is he that will strike hands with me?
17:4  For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
17:5  He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
17:6  “He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a drum to beat on.
17:7  Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
17:8  Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
17:9  The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
17:10  “But as for you all, do ye return and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.
17:11  My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
17:12  They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
17:13  If I wait, the grave is mine house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
17:14  I have said to corruption, ‘Thou art my father’; to the worm, ‘Thou art my mother and my sister.’
17:15  And where is now my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
17:16  It shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”