Job - Chapter 17 | Good News Translation

  • 1. The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.
  • 2. I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.
  • 3. I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.
  • 4. You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.
  • 5. In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it.
  • 6. And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.
  • 7. My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
  • 8. Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless.
  • 9. Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.
  • 10. But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise.
  • 11. My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.
  • 12. But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness.
  • 13. My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.
  • 14. I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.
  • 15. Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?
  • 16. Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.
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