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\c 17
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\q
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\v 1 My spirit is consumed, and my days are over;
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\q the grave is ready for me.
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\q
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\v 2 Surely there are mockers with me;
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\q my eye must always see their provocation.
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\q
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\v 3 Give now a pledge, be a guarantee for me with yourself;
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\q who else is there who will help me?
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\q
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\v 4 For you, God, have kept their hearts from understanding;
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\q therefore, you will not exalt them over me.
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\q
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\v 5 He who denounces his friends for a reward,
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\q the eyes of his children will fail.
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\v 6 But he has made me a byword of the people;
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\q they spit in my face.
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\q
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\v 7 My eye is also dim because of sorrow;
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\q all my body parts are as thin as shadows.
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\q
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\v 8 Upright men will be stunned by this;
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\q the innocent man will stir himself up against godless men.
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\q
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\v 9 The righteous man will keep to his way;
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\q he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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\v 10 But as for you all, come on now;
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\q I will not find a wise man among you.
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\q
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\v 11 My days are past; my plans are shattered,
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\q and so are the desires of my heart. \f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa My days are past, as are my plans. The wishes of my heart are finished \fqa* or \fqa ... the strings of my heart have been broken \fqa* . Others have \fqa My days are past; my plans are over, as are the wishes of my heart \fqa* \f*
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\v 12 These people, these mockers, change the night into day;
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\q light is near to darkness.
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\q
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\v 13 If the only home I hope for is Sheol;
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\q and if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
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\q
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\v 14 and if I have said to the pit, 'You are my father,'
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\q and to the worm, 'You are my mother or my sister,'
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\q
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\v 15 where then is my hope?
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\q As for my hope, who can see any?
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\q
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\v 16 Will hope go down with me to the gates of Sheol
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\q when we descend to the dust?"
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