### American Standard Version

Job 16

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 17
#### 1 | My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.
#### 2 | Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
#### 3 | Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?
#### 4 | For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
#### 5 | He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
#### 6 | But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
#### 7 | Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
#### 8 | Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
#### 9 | Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
#### 10 | But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.
#### 11 | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
#### 12 | They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
#### 13 | If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
#### 14 | If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
#### 15 | Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
#### 16 | It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

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