017:001
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

017:002
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

017:003
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

017:004
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

017:005
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

017:006
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

017:007
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

017:008
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

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017:009
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

017:010
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

017:011
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

017:012
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

017:013
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

017:014
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

017:015
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

017:016
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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