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Job 17:4-12 English Standard Version (ESV)

4. Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,therefore you will not let them triumph.

5. He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—the eyes of his children will fail.

6. “He has made me a byword of the peoples,and I am one before whom men spit.

7. My eye has grown dim from vexation,and all my members are like a shadow.

8. The upright are appalled at this,and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

9. Yet the righteous holds to his way,and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

10. But you, come on again, all of you,and I shall not find a wise man among you.

11. My days are past; my plans are broken off,the desires of my heart.

12. They make night into day:‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’