17:1 "My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. 17:2 Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. 17:3 "Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will put up security for me 17:4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. 17:5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property-- the eyes of his children will fail. 17:6 "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. 17:7 My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. 17:8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. 17:9 Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. 17:10 But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. 17:11 My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. 17:12 They make night into day: 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.' 17:13 If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, 17:14 if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,' 17:15 where then is my hope Who will see my hope 17:16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol Shall we descend together into the dust"