Job 17
1 spirit my to destroy day my to extinguish grave to/for me
My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave is ready for me.
2 if: surely yes not mockery with me me and in/on/with to rebel they to lodge eye my
Yet truly those that mock are with me, and on their offendings must my eye rest.
3 to set: put [emph?] please to pledge me with you who? he/she/it to/for hand: themselves my to blow
And thou, [Creator!] attend, I pray thee, be my surety with thyself: who else is there that would strike hands with me?
4 for heart their to treasure from understanding upon so not to exalt
For thou hast concealed their heart against intelligence: therefore art thou not exalted [through them].
5 to/for portion to tell neighbor and eye son: child his to end: expend
Every one of them speaketh deceptively to his friends: may also the eyes of his children fail.
6 and to set me to/for byword people and spit to/for face: before to be
And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.
7 and to grow dim from vexation eye my and member my like/as shadow all their
Therefore is my eye dim from vexation, and my limbs are all of them like a shadow.
8 be desolate: appalled upright upon this and innocent upon profane to rouse
Upright men must be astonished at this, and the innocent must arouse himself against the hypocrite.
9 and to grasp righteous way: conduct his and pure hand to add strength
Yet will the righteous hold firmly on to his way; and he that is clean of hands will acquire additional strength.
10 and but all their to return: return and to come (in): come please and not to find in/on/with you wise
But all of you, do only return, and come but [to me]: and yet I shall not find among you one wise man.
11 day my to pass wickedness my to tear possession heart my
My days are past, my resolves are broken off, [even the thoughts]—the possessions of my heart.
12 night to/for day to set: make light near from face: before darkness
These would change the night into day, the light as near in the presence of darkness.—
When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch; (Sheol h7585)
14 to/for pit: grave to call: call out father my you(m. s.) mother my and sister my to/for worm
When I call to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister, to the worms.
15 and where? then hope my and hope my who? to see her
Ay, where is then my hope? as for my hope, who will see it [fulfilled]?
