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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
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| 17:1 | My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me. | |
| 17:2 | Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye |
If not -- mockeries `are' with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. |
| 17:3 | Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? | Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me? |
| 17:4 | For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. | For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them. |
| 17:5 | He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. | For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed. |
| 17:6 | He hath made me also a byword of the people; and |
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am. |
| 17:7 | Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all |
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. |
| 17:8 | Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. | Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up. |
| 17:9 | The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands |
And the righteous layeth hold `on' his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all. |
| 17:10 | But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. | Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man. |
| 17:11 | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even |
My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! |
| 17:12 | They change the night into day: the light is |
Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness. |
| 17:13 | If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. | If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. |
| 17:14 | I have |
To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm. |
| 17:15 | And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? | And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? |
| 17:16 | They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. | `To' the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest. |