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| 17:1 | 
                                 
                                    "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
                                 
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| 17:2 | 
                                 
                                    "Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
                                 
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| 17:3 | 
                                 
                                    "Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
                                 
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| 17:4 | 
                                 
                                    "For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.
                                 
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| 17:5 | 
                                 
                                    "He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
                                 
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| 17:6 | 
                                 
                                    "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
                                 
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| 17:7 | 
                                 
                                    "My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
                                 
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| 17:8 | 
                                 
                                    "The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
                                 
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| 17:9 | 
                                 
                                    "Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
                                 
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| 17:10 | 
                                 
                                    "But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
                                 
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| 17:11 | 
                                 
                                    "My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.
                                 
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| 17:12 | 
                                 
                                    "They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
                                 
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| 17:13 | 
                                 
                                    "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
                                 
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| 17:14 | 
                                 
                                    If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';
                                 
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| 17:15 | 
                                 
                                    Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
                                 
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| 17:16 | 
                                 
                                    "Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
                                 
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