Job 17
1 spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur et solum mihi superest sepulchrum
Spirit my it is broken days my they are extinguished grave [belong] to me.
2 non peccavi et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus
Not mockeries [are] with me and on rebelling they may it dwell eye my.
3 libera me et pone iuxta te et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me
Make! please stand surety for me with yourself who? that to hand my will he strike himself.
4 cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina et propterea non exaltabuntur
For heart their you have kept from understanding there-fore not you will exalt [them].
5 praedam pollicetur sociis et oculi filiorum eius deficient
For a share he tells friends and [the] eyes of children his they will fail.
6 posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi et exemplum sum coram eis
And he has set me to use a proverb peoples and a spitting to [the] face I am.
7 caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus et membra mea quasi in nihili redacta sunt
And it has grown dim from grief eye my and members my [are] like shadow all of them.
8 stupebunt iusti super hoc et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur
They are appalled upright [people] on this and [the] innocent on [the] godless he will rouse himself.
9 et tenebit iustus viam suam et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem
And he may hold [the] righteous way his and [the] clean of hands he will increase strength.
10 igitur vos omnes convertimini et venite et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem
And but all of them you will return and come please and not I will find among you a wise [person].
11 dies mei transierunt cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum
Days my they have passed plans my they have been torn apart [the] wishes of heart my.
12 noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem
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 putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus
To the pit I have called out [are] father my you O mother my and sister my to the maggot.
15 ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea et patientiam meam quis considerat
And where? then [is] hope my and hope my who? will he observe it.
