Job 17
1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
2 Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
10 But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
And but all of them you will return and come please and not I will find among you a wise [person].
11 My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
Night into day they make light [is] near from before darkness.
If I will hope for Sheol home my in the darkness I have spread out beds my. (Sheol h7585)
14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
To the pit I have called out [are] father my you O mother my and sister my to the maggot.
15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
