Job 17

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

spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur et solum mihi superest sepulchrum

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

non peccavi et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus

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

libera me et pone iuxta te et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me

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

cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina et propterea non exaltabuntur

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

praedam pollicetur sociis et oculi filiorum eius deficient

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

posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi et exemplum sum coram eis

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

caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus et membra mea quasi in nihili redacta sunt

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

stupebunt iusti super hoc et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur

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

et tenebit iustus viam suam et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem

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

igitur vos omnes convertimini et venite et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem

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

dies mei transierunt cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum

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

noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem

13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, (Sheol h7585)

si sustinuero infernus domus mea est in tenebris stravi lectulum meum (Sheol h7585)

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

putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus

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

ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea et patientiam meam quis considerat

16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?” (Sheol h7585)

in profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea putasne saltim ibi erit requies mihi (Sheol h7585)