Job 17
1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Appoint it, I pray thee—be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.
6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Upright men shall be astounded over this, and, the innocent, against the impious, shall rouse themselves.
9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?
11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch; (Sheol h7585)
14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!
