Job 17
1 My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
2 Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
3 Appoint it, I pray thee—be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
5 He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
7 Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astounded over this, and, the innocent, against the impious, shall rouse themselves.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
9 That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
10 But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?
But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the droughts of my heart.
12 Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
They change the night into a day: the fight, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness; (Sheol h7585)
14 To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
15 Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!
Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it?
