Job 17:1 |
My spirit is broken; / My days are extinct; / The graveyard is [ready] for me. |
Job 17:2 |
Surely there are mockers with me, / And my eye lingers on their provocation. |
Job 17:3 |
Lay down now a pledge for me with Yourself; / Who is he who will strike hands with me? |
Job 17:4 |
For You have hidden their heart from insight; / Therefore You will not exalt [them.] |
Job 17:5 |
He who denounces his friends for a share [of the profit taken,] / Even the eyes of his children will fail. |
Job 17:6 |
But He has made me a byword of the people, / And I have become one on whom they may spit. |
Job 17:7 |
And my eye has grown dim because of the sorrow, / And my members are all like a shadow. |
Job 17:8 |
The upright are appalled at this, / And the innocent stir themselves up against the profane man. |
Job 17:9 |
Yet the righteous man will hold fast to his way, / And he whose hands are clean will wax yet stronger. |
Job 17:10 |
But all of you, come back now, / And I will not find a wise man among you. |
Job 17:11 |
My days have passed; broken are my plans, / The cherished thoughts of my heart. |
Job 17:12 |
They change night into day; / The light is near, [they say] in the face of darkness. |
Job 17:13 |
If I wait for Sheol as my house; / If I spread my couch in the darkness; |
Job 17:14 |
If I call out to the pit, You are my father; / [You are] my mother and my sister, to the worm; |
Job 17:15 |
Where then is my hope? / Indeed, my hope, who will see it? |
Job 17:16 |
It will go down to the bars of Sheol, / When, at the same time, [we have] rest in the dust. |