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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me (17:1)

[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? (17:2)

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me? (17:3)

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them] (17:4)

He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail (17:5)

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret (17:6)

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow (17:7)

Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite (17:8)

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger (17:9)

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you (17:10)

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart (17:11)

They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness (17:12)

If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness (17:13)

I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister (17:14)

And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? (17:15)

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust (17:16)

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