Job 17

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1 My breath; my days are extinct; coffins before me.
2 If not ridicule them, and disputes among them my eye would have stayed calm.
3 Intercede, charging [himself] for me before him! otherwise who will vouch for me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
5 Who condemns his friends for a prey, the eyes of the children shall fail.
6 He has made me a proverb and a byword of the people for him.
7 Dim by reason of sorrow my eye, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Izumi of these things, and the innocent against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and clean hands shall be stronger and longer approved.

10 Listen, all of you, and go; I can not find one wise man among you.
eleven My days have passed; my thoughts - of my heart - broken.
12 A night they [want] to turn on the day, the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave - my house; in the darkness I will lay my bed;
14 coffin to say: You are my father, to the worm: You are my mother and my sister.
15 Where then is my hope? and my hope, who shall see it?
16 The hell it will come and lie down with me in the dust.

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