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Iob 17 - King James 1611 bible

Iob 17

¹My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.

²Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation?

³Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

⁴For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

⁵Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile.

⁶He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret.

⁷Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

⁸Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stirre vp himselfe against the hypocrite.

⁹The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger.

¹⁰But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹¹My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart:

¹²They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes.

¹³If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.

¹⁴I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

¹⁵And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.