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Job 17:10

Verse 10 of 16. The 17th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.