< Job 17 >

1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
spirit my to destroy day my to extinguish grave to/for me
2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
if: surely yes not mockery with me me and in/on/with to rebel they to lodge eye my
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
to set: put [emph?] please to pledge me with you who? he/she/it to/for hand: themselves my to blow
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
for heart their to treasure from understanding upon so not to exalt
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
to/for portion to tell neighbor and eye son: child his to end: expend
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and as one before whom men spit.
and to set me to/for byword people and spit to/for face: before to be
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
and to grow dim from vexation eye my and member my like/as shadow all their
8 Upright men shall be appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
be desolate: appalled upright upon this and innocent upon profane to rouse
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
and to grasp righteous way: conduct his and pure hand to add strength
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
and but all their to return: return and to come (in): come please and not to find in/on/with you wise
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
day my to pass wickedness my to tear possession heart my
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
night to/for day to set: make light near from face: before darkness
13 If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. (Sheol h7585)
if to await hell: Sheol house: home my in/on/with darkness to spread bed my (Sheol h7585)
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
to/for pit: grave to call: call out father my you(m. s.) mother my and sister my to/for worm
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
and where? then hope my and hope my who? to see her
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. (Sheol h7585)
alone: pole hell: Sheol to go down if: surely no unitedness upon dust to descend (Sheol h7585)

< Job 17 >