Job 17
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
5 He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shade.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright [men] shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the droughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of 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 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?
Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it?
