Iyov (Job) 17
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1“My spirit is broken, my days are quenched,
I am marked for the grave.
2Mockers are all around me;
my eye meets only their hostility.
3Be my guarantor, yourself!
Who else will put up a pledge for me?
4For you have shut their minds to common sense;
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5Should people share with their friends
when their own children’s eyes are so sad?
6“He has made me a byword among the peoples,
a creature in whose face they spit.
7I am nearly blind with grief,
my limbs reduced to a shadow.
8The upright are perplexed at this,
the innocent aroused against the hypocrites.
9Yet the righteous hold on to their way,
and those with clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
10“But as for you all, turn around! Come back! —
yet I won’t find a wise man among you.
11My days are over, my plans cut off,
which I had cherished so;
12but they [try to] turn [my] night into day,
[saying,] ‘Light is near!’ — in the face of darkness.
13“If I hope for Sh’ol to be my house;
if I spread my couch in the dark;
14if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to worms, ‘You are my mother and sister,’
15then where is my hope?
And that hope of mine, who will see it?
16Only those who go down with me
to the bars of Sh’ol,
when we rest together in the dust.”
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