Job 17 ⓘ

17:1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

17:2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

17:3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

17:4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

17:5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

17:6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

17:8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

17:9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

17:10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man amongst you.

17:11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

17:12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

17:14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

17:15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

17:16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”