Job 17:1: My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Job 17:2: Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? Job 17:3: Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? Job 17:4: For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. Job 17:5: He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. Job 17:6: He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. Job 17:7: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. Job 17:8: Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 17:9: The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. Job 17:10: But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. Job 17:11: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. Job 17:12: They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. Job 17:13: If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. Job 17:14: I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. Job 17:15: And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? Job 17:16: They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.