Job 17
1 “My spirit has been destroyed, My days extinguished—graves [are] for me.
Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
2 If not—mockeries [are] with me. And my eye lodges in their provocations.
Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
3 Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?
Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore You do not exalt them.
For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
5 For a portion he shows friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
6 And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And I am a wonder before them.
And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
7 And my eye is dim from sorrow, And my members—all of them—as a shadow.
And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
8 The upright are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the profane.
They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
9 And the righteous lays hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands adds strength.
And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
10 But please return and come in, all of you, And I do 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 have passed by, My plans have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
12 They appoint night for day, Light [is] near because of darkness.
Night into day they make light [is] near from before darkness.
If I will hope for Sheol home my in the darkness I have spread out beds my. (Sheol h7585)
14 To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: 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 And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?
And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
