< Job 17 >
1 My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave is ready for me.
spirit my to destroy day my to extinguish grave to/for me
2 Yet truly those that mock are with me, and on their offendings must my eye rest.
if: surely yes not mockery with me me and in/on/with to rebel they to lodge eye my
3 And thou, [Creator!] attend, I pray thee, be my surety with thyself: who else is there that would 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 concealed their heart against intelligence: therefore art thou not exalted [through them].
for heart their to treasure from understanding upon so not to exalt
5 Every one of them speaketh deceptively to his friends: may also the eyes of his children fail.
to/for portion to tell neighbor and eye son: child his to end: expend
6 And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.
and to set me to/for byword people and spit to/for face: before to be
7 Therefore is my eye dim from vexation, and my limbs are all of them like a shadow.
and to grow dim from vexation eye my and member my like/as shadow all their
8 Upright men must be astonished at this, and the innocent must arouse himself against the hypocrite.
be desolate: appalled upright upon this and innocent upon profane to rouse
9 Yet will the righteous hold firmly on to his way; and he that is clean of hands will acquire additional strength.
and to grasp righteous way: conduct his and pure hand to add strength
10 But all of you, do only return, and come but [to me]: and yet I shall not find among you one wise man.
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 resolves are broken off, [even the thoughts]—the possessions of my heart.
day my to pass wickedness my to tear possession heart my
12 These would change the night into day, the light as near in the presence of darkness.—
night to/for day to set: make light near from face: before darkness
13 When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch; (Sheol )
if to await hell: Sheol house: home my in/on/with darkness to spread bed my (Sheol )
14 When I call to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister, to the worms.
to/for pit: grave to call: call out father my you(m. s.) mother my and sister my to/for worm
15 Ay, where is then my hope? as for my hope, who will see it [fulfilled]?
and where? then hope my and hope my who? to see her
16 Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world: truly in the dust alone there is rest for all. (Sheol )
alone: pole hell: Sheol to go down if: surely no unitedness upon dust to descend (Sheol )