Job 17
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
And but all of them you will return and come please and not I will find among you a wise [person].
11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
Night into day they make light [is] near from before darkness.
If I will hope for Sheol home my in the darkness I have spread out beds my. (Sheol h7585)
14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
To the pit I have called out [are] father my you O mother my and sister my to the maggot.
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
