Job 17
1 Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
2 Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
3 Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
5 For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
7 And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
9 And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
10 And but all of them you will return and come please and not I will find among you a wise [person].
But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the droughts of my heart.
12 Night into day they make light [is] near from before darkness.
They change the night into a day: the fight, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness; (Sheol h7585)
14 To the pit I have called out [are] father my you O mother my and sister my to the maggot.
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
15 And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it?
