Job 17
1 Naibus ti espirituk, ken aggibusen dagiti al-aldawko; nakasaganan ti tanem a para kaniak.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 Pudno nga adda dagiti mananglalais a kaduak; masapul a kankanayon a makitkita ti matak iti pananggargarida.
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
3 Mangtedka ita ti maysa a sapata, agbalinka koma a pammatalged a maipaay kaniak; siasino pay iti adda a tumulong kaniak?
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 Ta linapdam O Dios dagiti pusoda manipud ti pannakaawat; saanmonto ngarud itan-ok ida kaniak.
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them.
5 Ti mangakusar kadagiti gagayyemna a maipaay iti gunggona, kumapoyto dagiti mata dagiti annakna.
He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
6 Ngem inaramidnak a maysa a balikas a kanayon nga us-usaren dagiti tattao, tuptupraanda ti rupak.
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
7 Nakudrep met ti matak gapu iti ladingit; nakuttong dagiti amin a paset ti bagik a kas ti kinakuttong ti aniniwan.
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Agsiddaawto dagiti nalinteg a lallaki gapu iti daytoy; makaungetto ti awan basolna a tao maibusor kadagiti nadangkes a lallaki.
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
9 Agtalinaedto ti nalinteg a tao iti dalanna; ad-addanto pay a pumigsa dagiti addaan iti nadalus nga im-ima.
Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
10 Ngem maipapan kadakayo amin, umaykayo ita; saanakto a makasarak iti masirib a tao kadakayo.
But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 Naglabasen dagiti al-aldawko, naggibusen dagiti panggepko, uray dagiti tartarigagayan ti pusok.
My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 Baliwan dagitoy a tattao, dagitoy a mananglalais, ti rabii iti aldaw; ti lawag, kunada nga asideg iti kinasipnget.
They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness.
13 Agsipud ta kitkitaek ti sheol a kas balayko; agsipud ta inyukradko ti iddak iti kasipngetan, (Sheol h7585)
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, (Sheol h7585)
14 agsipud ta imbagak iti abut, 'Sika ti Amak,' ken iti igges, 'Sika ti inak ken kabsatko a babai,'
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
15 sadino ngaruden ti ayan ti namnamak? Maipapan ti namnamak, siasino ti makakita ti aniaman?
where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
