< Job 17 >
1 Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur et solum mihi superest sepulchrum
2 Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
non peccavi et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus
3 Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
libera me et pone iuxta te et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me
4 For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina et propterea non exaltabuntur
5 For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
praedam pollicetur sociis et oculi filiorum eius deficient
6 And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi et exemplum sum coram eis
7 And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus et membra mea quasi in nihili redacta sunt
8 They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
stupebunt iusti super hoc et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur
9 And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
et tenebit iustus viam suam et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem
10 And but all of them you will return and come please and not I will find among you a wise [person].
igitur vos omnes convertimini et venite et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem
11 Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
dies mei transierunt cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum
12 Night into day they make light [is] near from before darkness.
noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem
13 If I will hope for Sheol home my in the darkness I have spread out beds my. (Sheol )
si sustinuero infernus domus mea est in tenebris stravi lectulum meum (Sheol )
14 To the pit I have called out [are] father my you O mother my and sister my to the maggot.
putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus
15 And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea et patientiam meam quis considerat
16 [the] poles of Sheol will they go down? or? together to [the] dust will we descend. (Sheol )
in profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea putasne saltim ibi erit requies mihi (Sheol )