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Job 16:22-17:9 (Listen)

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• Job 16–17
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22 For when a few years have come

I shall go the way ifrom which I shall not return.

Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

17 “My spirit is broken; my days are jextinct;

kthe graveyard is ready for me.

2 Surely there are mockers about me,

and my eye dwells on their lprovocation.

3 “Lay down a pledge for me with you;

who is there who will put up msecurity for me?

4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,

therefore you will not let them triumph.

5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—

the neyes of his children will fail.

6 “He has made me oa byword of the peoples,

and I am one before whom men spit.

7 My peye has grown dim from vexation,

and all my members are like qa shadow.

8 The upright are rappalled at this,

and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

9 Yet the righteous holds to his way,

and he who has sclean hands grows stronger and stronger.