CHAP. XVII.

1 Iob appealeth from men to God. 6 The vnmercifull dealing of men with the afflicted, may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. 11 His hope is not in life, but in death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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