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Job 17:1-9

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Job Says He Has Become a Proverb

1“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,

The grave is ready for me.

2“Mockers are certainly with me,

And my eye gazes on their provocation.

3“Make a pledge for me with Yourself;

Who is there that will be my guarantor?

4“For You have kept their hearts away from understanding;

Therefore You will not exalt them.

5“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoils,

The eyes of his children also will perish.

6“But He has made me a proverb among the people,

And I am one at whom people spit.

7“My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief,

And all my body parts are like a shadow.

8“The upright will be appalled at this,

And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

9“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,

And the one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.