Job 17
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1“My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
2Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
3“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?3Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?
4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.4Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.5If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.
6“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
7My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
8Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.8Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.
9Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.9But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10“But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.10"But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.
11My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
12They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.12These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'
13If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’14If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,'
15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
16Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?”16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"
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