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17:1  “My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me.
17:2  Surely mockery is with me, and my eye rests on their provocation.
17:3  Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand?
17:4  Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let them triumph.
17:5  He denounces friends for reward, so his children’s eyes will fail.
17:6  “And he has made me a proverb for the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
17:7  And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.
17:8  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent excites himself over the godless.
17:9  But the righteous holds on to his way, and he who has clean hands increases in strength.
17:10  But all of you must return—please come! But I shall not find a wise person among you.
17:11  “My days are past; my plans are broken down— even the desires of my heart.
17:12  They make night into day, saying, ‘Light is near to darkness.’
17:13  If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness,
17:14  if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or my sister,’
17:15  where then is my hope? And who will see my hope?
17:16  Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?”