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17:1	My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
17:2	Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
17:3	Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
17:4	For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
17:5	He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
17:6	He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
17:7	Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
17:8	Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
17:9	The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
17:10	But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
17:11	My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
17:12	They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
17:13	If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
17:14	I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
17:15	And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
17:16	They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.


17:1	My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me.
17:2	There are none but mockers with mee, and mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
17:3	Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?
17:4	For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.
17:5	For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends.
17:6	Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
17:7	Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
17:8	The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite.
17:9	But the righteous wil holde his way, and he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.
17:10	All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.
17:11	My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
17:12	Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
17:13	Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.
17:14	I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
17:15	Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for?
17:16	They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.


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