< Job 17 >
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
spirit my to destroy day my to extinguish grave to/for me
2 Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide 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 [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh 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 hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
for heart their to treasure from understanding upon so not to exalt
5 He that betrayeth friends for a prey — even the eyes of his children shall fail.
to/for portion to tell neighbor and eye son: child his to end: expend
6 And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
and to set me to/for byword people and spit to/for face: before to be
7 And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, 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] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
be desolate: appalled upright upon this and innocent upon profane to rouse
9 But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
and to grasp righteous way: conduct his and pure hand to add strength
10 But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not 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, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
day my to pass wickedness my to tear possession heart my
12 They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
night to/for day to set: make light near from face: before darkness
13 If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: (Sheol )
if to await hell: Sheol house: home my in/on/with darkness to spread bed my (Sheol )
14 I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, 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 then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
and where? then hope my and hope my who? to see her
16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust. (Sheol )
alone: pole hell: Sheol to go down if: surely no unitedness upon dust to descend (Sheol )