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== Iyov (Book of Job), Chapter 17 ==

<named id="1"/>1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

<named id="2"/>2 Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.

<named id="3"/>3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?

<named id="4"/>4 For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.

<named id="5"/>5 He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

<named id="6"/>6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.

<named id="7"/>7 Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.

<named id="8"/>8 Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.

<named id="9"/>9 Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.

<named id="10"/>10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.

<named id="11"/>11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

<named id="12"/>12 They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.

<named id="13"/>13 If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;

<named id="14"/>14 If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';

<named id="15"/>15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

<named id="16"/>16 They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.

== See also ==
* [[Iyov 16|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Iyov 17 Commentaries]]
* [[Iyov 18|Next Chapter]]

== References ==
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