Job 17
1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5 He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and as one before whom men spit.
7 Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
Upright men shall be appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of 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 wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. (Sheol h7585)
14 If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
