Job 17
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1"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me!
2"Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.
3"Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor?
4"For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.
5"He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6"But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face.
7"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow.
8"The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless.
9"Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger."
10"But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.10"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you.
11"My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires.
12"They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.'
13"If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;13"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,
14If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';14if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!'
15Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it?
16"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"
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