17:1 My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
17:2 Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
17:3 ‘Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there that will give surety for me?
17:4 Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
17:5 Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.
17:6 ‘He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.
17:7 My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
17:8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
17:9 Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they that have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
17:10 But you, come back now, all of you, and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
17:11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
17:12 They make night into day; “The light”, they say, “is near to the darkness.”
17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
17:14 if I say to the Pit, “You are my father”, and to the worm, “My mother”, or “My sister”,
17:15 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
17:16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?’
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