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| 17:1 | My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me. |
| 17:2 | Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation? |
| 17:3 | Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? |
| 17:4 | For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
| 17:5 | Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile. |
| 17:6 | He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret. |
| 17:7 | Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. |
| 17:8 | Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stirre vp himselfe against the hypocrite. |
| 17:9 | The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger. |
| 17:10 | But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you. |
| 17:11 | My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart: |
| 17:12 | They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes. |
| 17:13 | If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse. |
| 17:14 | I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
| 17:15 | And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| 17:16 | They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. |
| 17:1 | My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me. |
| 17:2 | There are none but mockers with mee, and mine eye continueth in their bitternesse. |
| 17:3 | Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand? |
| 17:4 | For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie. |
| 17:5 | For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends. |
| 17:6 | Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them. |
| 17:7 | Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe. |
| 17:8 | The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite. |
| 17:9 | But the righteous wil holde his way, and he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength. |
| 17:10 | All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you. |
| 17:11 | My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart |
| 17:12 | Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse. |
| 17:13 | Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke. |
| 17:14 | I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister. |
| 17:15 | Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for? |
| 17:16 | They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust. |
| 17:1 | My breth stincketh, my dayes are shortened. I am harde at deathes dore. |
| 17:2 | Froward men are wt me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them. |
| 17:3 | O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suertie in thy sight, what is he that knoweth who will promes for me? |
| 17:4 | For thou hast with holden their hertes from vnderstandynge, therfore shalt thou not sett (them) vp on hye. |
| 17:5 | He promiseth his frendes parte of his good, but his awne children spende it. |
| 17:6 | He hath made me as it were a byworde of the people: where as afore, I was theyr ioye. |
| 17:7 | Myne eye is dymme, for very heuynesse, & all my strength is become like a shadow. |
| 17:8 | Uertuous men therfore shall well consydre this, and the innocent shall take parte agaynst the ypocrite. |
| 17:9 | The righteous also will kepe hys waye, and he that hath cleane handes, wyll euer be stronger and stronger. |
| 17:10 | As for you, turne you, and get you hence (I praye you) seynge I cannot fynde one wyse man amonge you: |
| 17:11 | My dayes are past, and my councels and thoughtes of my hart are vanysshed awaye |
| 17:12 | chaungynge the night into daye, and the light into darcknes. |
| 17:13 | Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I haue made my bed in the darcke. |
| 17:14 | I call corrupcyon my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my syster. |
| 17:15 | What helpeth then my longe taryenge? Or, who hath considred the thynge, that I loke for? |
| 17:16 | All that I haue, shall go downe into the pytt, and lye with me in the dust. |
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