Job 17
1 spirit my to destroy day my to extinguish grave to/for me
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2 if: surely yes not mockery with me me and in/on/with to rebel they to lodge eye my
Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?
3 to set: put [emph?] please to pledge me with you who? he/she/it to/for hand: themselves my to blow
Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 for heart their to treasure from understanding upon so not to exalt
For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
5 to/for portion to tell neighbor and eye son: child his to end: expend
He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 and to set me to/for byword people and spit to/for face: before to be
He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7 and to grow dim from vexation eye my and member my like/as shadow all their
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 be desolate: appalled upright upon this and innocent upon profane to rouse
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 and to grasp righteous way: conduct his and pure hand to add strength
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 and but all their to return: return and to come (in): come please and not to find in/on/with you wise
But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11 day my to pass wickedness my to tear possession heart my
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 night to/for day to set: make light near from face: before darkness
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. (Sheol h7585)
14 to/for pit: grave to call: call out father my you(m. s.) mother my and sister my to/for worm
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
15 and where? then hope my and hope my who? to see her
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
