Job 17
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
2 Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
3 Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
Appoint it, I pray thee—be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
4 For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
5 He that betrayeth friends for a prey — even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.
6 And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
7 And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
8 Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
Upright men shall be astounded over this, and, the innocent, against the impious, shall rouse themselves.
9 But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
10 But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
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?
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
12 They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch; (Sheol h7585)
14 I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
15 And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!
