< Job 17 >
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
spirit my to destroy day my to extinguish grave to/for me
2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
if: surely yes not mockery with me me and in/on/with to rebel they to lodge eye my
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
to set: put [emph?] please to pledge me with you who? he/she/it to/for hand: themselves my to blow
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
for heart their to treasure from understanding upon so not to exalt
5 He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
to/for portion to tell neighbor and eye son: child his to end: expend
6 He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
and to set me to/for byword people and spit to/for face: before to be
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shade.
and to grow dim from vexation eye my and member my like/as shadow all their
8 Upright [men] shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
be desolate: appalled upright upon this and innocent upon profane to rouse
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
and to grasp righteous way: conduct his and pure hand to add strength
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
and but all their to return: return and to come (in): come please and not to find in/on/with you wise
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
day my to pass wickedness my to tear possession heart my
12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
night to/for day to set: make light near from face: before darkness
13 If I wait, the grave [is] my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. (Sheol )
if to await hell: Sheol house: home my in/on/with darkness to spread bed my (Sheol )
14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
to/for pit: grave to call: call out father my you(m. s.) mother my and sister my to/for worm
15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?
and where? then hope my and hope my who? to see her
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust. (Sheol )
alone: pole hell: Sheol to go down if: surely no unitedness upon dust to descend (Sheol )