Job 17
1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?
Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
4 For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
5 He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
7 Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
8 Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
9 Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall 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 are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
12 They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
Night into day they make light [is] near from before darkness.
13 If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness; (Sheol h7585)
If I will hope for Sheol home my in the darkness I have spread out beds my. (Sheol h7585)
14 If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and 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? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
