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17:1My spirit is broken; / My days are extinct; / The graveyard is ready for me.
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17:2Surely there are mockers with me, / And my eye lingers on their provocation.
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17:3Lay down now a pledge for me with Yourself; / Who is he who will strike hands with me?
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17:4For You have hidden their heart from insight; / Therefore You will not exalt them.
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17:5He who denounces his friends for a share of the profit taken, / Even the eyes of his children will fail.
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17:6But He has made me a byword of the people, / And I have become one on whom they may spit.
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17:7And my eye has grown dim because of the sorrow, / And my members are all like a shadow.
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17:8The upright are appalled at this, / And the innocent stir themselves up against the profane man.
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17:9Yet the righteous man will hold fast to his way, / And he whose hands are clean will wax yet stronger.
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17:10But all of you, come back now, / And I will not find a wise man among you.
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17:11My days have passed; broken are my plans, / The cherished thoughts of my heart.
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17:12They change night into day; / The light is near, they say in the face of darkness.
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17:13If I wait for Sheol as my house; / If I spread my couch in the darkness;
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17:14If I call out to the pit, You are my father; / You are my mother and my sister, to the worm;
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17:15Where then is my hope? / Indeed, my hope, who will see it?
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17:16It will go down to the bars of Sheol, / When, at the same time, we have rest in the dust.
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