Job 17
1 Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain [it] not.
2 Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
Weary I entreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.
3 Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
Who is this? let him join hands with me.
4 For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
For you have hid their heart from wisdom; therefore you shall not exalt them.
5 For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children.
6 And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
But you has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.
7 And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
8 They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.
9 And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.
10 And but all of them you will return and come please and not I will find among you a wise [person].
Howbeit, do you all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.
11 Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.
12 Night into day they make light [is] near from before darkness.
I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. (Sheol h7585)
14 To the pit I have called out [are] father my you O mother my and sister my to the maggot.
I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.
15 And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
Where then is yet my hope? or [where] shall I see my good?
