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17:1  “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
17:2  Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
17:3  “Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will put up security for me?
17:4  Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
17:5  He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.
17:6  “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
17:7  My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
17:8  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
17:9  Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
17:10  But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man 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 hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed 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?”