< Job 17 >

1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
spirit my to destroy day my to extinguish grave to/for me
2 Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
if: surely yes not mockery with me me and in/on/with to rebel they to lodge eye my
3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike 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 hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
for heart their to treasure from understanding upon so not to exalt
5 He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
to/for portion to tell neighbor and eye son: child his to end: expend
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
and to set me to/for byword people and spit to/for face: before to be
7 Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, 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 are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
be desolate: appalled upright upon this and innocent upon profane to rouse
9 Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
and to grasp righteous way: conduct his and pure hand to add 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 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, even the thoughts of my heart.
day my to pass wickedness my to tear possession heart my
12 They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
night to/for day to set: make light near from face: 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 to await hell: Sheol house: home my in/on/with darkness to spread bed 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/for pit: grave to call: call out father my you(m. s.) mother my and sister my to/for worm
15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
and where? then hope my and hope my who? to see her
16 They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust. (Sheol h7585)
alone: pole hell: Sheol to go down if: surely no unitedness upon dust to descend (Sheol h7585)

< Job 17 >