Job 17 — KJV

17 Verse 1 My 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 ye 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.