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17:1  “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me.
17:2  Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
17:3  “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?
17:4  For You have hidden their heart from understanding. Therefore will You not exalt them.
17:5  He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail.
17:6  “And He has made me a byword of the people, someone in whose face they spit.
17:7  My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.
17:8  Upright men will be astonished at this, and the innocent will stir up himself against the hypocrite.
17:9  The righteous also will hold to his way, and he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
17:10  “But as for you all, 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 my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
17:14  I have said to the pit, ‘You are my father’; to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
17:15  Where now is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
17:16  Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we descend together in the dust?”