Job 17 — KJVCP

17Verse 1My breath is corrupt,
My days are extinct,
The graves are ready for me.
^{Verse 2}Are there not mockers with me?
And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?^{Verse 3}Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee;
Who is he that will strike hands with me?
^{Verse 4}For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
^{Verse 5}He that speaketh flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.^{Verse 6}He hath made me also a byword of the people;
And aforetime I was as a tabret.
^{Verse 7}Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
And all my members are as a shadow.
^{Verse 8}Upright men shall be astonied at this,
And the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
^{Verse 9}The righteous also shall hold on his way,
And he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
^{Verse 10}But as for you all, do you return, and come now:
For I cannot find one wise man among you.^{Verse 11}My days are past,
My purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.
^{Verse 12}They change the night into day:
The light is short, because of darkness.
^{Verse 13}If I wait, the grave is mine house:
I have made my bed in the darkness.
^{Verse 14}I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:
To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
^{Verse 15}And where is now my hope?
As for my hope, who shall see it?
^{Verse 16}They shall go down to the bars of the pit,
When our rest together is in the dust.