| 17:1 | My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. |
| 17:2 | Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
| 17:3 | Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? |
| 17:4 | For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
| 17:5 | He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
| 17:6 | He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. |
| 17:6 | 神使我作了民中的笑談．他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。 |
| 17:6 | 神使我作了民中的笑谈。他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。 |
| deu:28:37 | And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. |
| job:30:9 | And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. |
| psm:44:14 | Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
| psm:69:11 | I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. |
| job:30:10 | They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. |
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| 17:7 | Mine eye also is dim 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 stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
| 17:9 | The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
| 17:10 | But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. |
| 17:11 | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. |
| 17:12 | They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. |
| 17:13 | If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. |
| 17:14 | I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, 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 go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. |
