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Job 17:2 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? "
Job 17:2
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves
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
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt
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Job 17:1
"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves"
Job 17:3
"Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands"
Job 17:4
"For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt"
Job 17:5
"He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."
Job 17:6
"He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."
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