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22 “For when a few years have passed,
    I will go the way from which I will not return.

Job Prays for Relief

17 “My spirit is broken,
    my days are extinguished,
    the grave is ready for me.
Are not mockers with me?
    And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
    Who is he who will shake hands with me?
For You have hidden their heart from understanding.
    Therefore will You not exalt them.
He who speaks flattery to his friends,
    even the eyes of his children will fail.

“And He has made me a byword of the people,
    someone in whose face they spit.
My eye also is dim because of sorrow,
    and all my members are like a shadow.
Upright men will be astonished at this,
    and the innocent will stir up himself against the hypocrite.
The righteous also will hold to his way,
    and he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

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

17 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct,
the graves are ready for me.
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.
Upright men shall be astonied at this,
and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
The righteous also shall hold on his way,
and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.