Job - Chapter 17 | English Standard Version

  • 1. My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
  • 2. Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
  • 3. "Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will put up security for me?
  • 4. Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
  • 5. He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property-- the eyes of his children will fail.
  • 6. "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
  • 7. My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
  • 8. The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
  • 9. Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
  • 10. But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
  • 11. My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
  • 12. They make night into day; 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'
  • 13. If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
  • 14. if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'
  • 15. where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
  • 16. Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
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