### Noah Webster Bible

Job 16

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 17
| My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
| Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
| Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
| For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
| He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
| He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
| My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade.
| Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
| The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
| But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
| My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
| They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
| If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
| I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
| And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?
| They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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