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17:1  “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me.
17:2  Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
17:3  “Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will give surety for me?
17:4  Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
17:5  Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.
17:6  “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
17:7  My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
17:8  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
17:9  Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
17:10  But you, come back now, all of you, and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
17:11  My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
17:12  They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
17:13  If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
17:14  if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
17:15  where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
17:16  Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”