### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 16

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 17
#### 1 | My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.
#### 2 | I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.
#### 3 | Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.
#### 4 | Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.
#### 5 | He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.
#### 6 | He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
#### 7 | My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
#### 8 | The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.
#### 9 | And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
#### 10 | Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
#### 11 | My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
#### 12 | They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
#### 13 | If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
#### 14 | If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
#### 15 | Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
#### 16 | All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

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