Job 17
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1“My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
2I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
3“You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me.3Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?
4You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph.4Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.5If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.
6“God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
7My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
8The virtuous are horrified when they see me. The innocent rise up against the ungodly.8Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.
9The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.9But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10“As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t find a 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 over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
12These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.12These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'
13What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or 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? Can anyone find it?15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
16No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will 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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