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Job 17:6

Verse 6 of 16. The 17th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

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.

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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.