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17:1  “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
17:2  Mockers are certainly with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
17:3  “Make a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
17:4  For You have kept their hearts away from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.
17:5  He who informs against friends for a share of the spoils, The eyes of his children also will perish.
17:6  “But He has made me a proverb among the people, And I am one at whom people spit.
17:7  My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief, And all my body parts are like a shadow.
17:8  The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
17:9  Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And the one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
17:10  But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
17:11  My days are past, my plans are torn apart, The wishes of my heart.
17:12  They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
17:13  If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
17:14  If I call to the grave, ‘You are my father’; To the maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’;
17:15  Where then is my hope? And who looks at my hope?
17:16  Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”