Parallel Search for 'Job 16:22-17:9' - NAS and KJV

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"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

Job 16:22

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

Job 17:1

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

"Mockers are certainly with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.

Job 17:2

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

"Make a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?

Job 17:3

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

"For You have kept their hearts away from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.

Job 17:4

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

"He who informs against friends for a share of the spoils, The eyes of his children also will perish.

Job 17:5

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

"But He has made me a proverb among the people, And I am one at whom people spit.

Job 17:6

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

"My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief, And all my body parts are like a shadow.

Job 17:7

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

"The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

Job 17:8

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

"Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And the one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Job 17:9

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

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