{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:56:56.867Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":17,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 17 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 17](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/17 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}