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Read Full Chapter (Job 17) Job 17:2-7 KJV
"Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine 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 byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow."
Job 17:2-7 in Context (Verses 1–10 KJV)
1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.*
2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?*
3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.*
7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.*
8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.*
10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.