1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. KJV — Job 17:1
2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? KJV — Job 17:2
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? KJV — Job 17:3
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. KJV — Job 17:4
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. KJV — Job 17:5
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. KJV — Job 17:6
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. KJV — Job 17:7
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. KJV — Job 17:8
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. KJV — Job 17:9
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. KJV — Job 17:10
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. KJV — Job 17:11
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. KJV — Job 17:12
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. KJV — Job 17:13
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. KJV — Job 17:14
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? KJV — Job 17:15
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. KJV — Job 17:16