Job 17
17
Job Says He Has Become a Byword
1“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.
2“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.
3¶“Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death];
Who is there that will #17:3 Lit strike hands with me.be my guarantor and give security for me?
4“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].
5“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.
6¶“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,
And I have become one in whose face people spit.
7“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
8“The upright will be [astonished and] appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted.
9“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. [Ps 24:4]
10“But as for all of you, come back again,
Even though I do not find a wise man among you.
11“My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;
The wishes of my heart [are broken].
12“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
13“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
14If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’
15Where now is my hope?
And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?
16“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?
Shall we go down together in the dust?”
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Job 17
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1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct,
The graves are ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers with me?
And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee;
Who is he that will strike hands with me?
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people;
And aforetime I was as a tabret.
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
And all my members are as a shadow.
8Upright men shall be astonied at this,
And the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9The righteous also shall hold on his way,
And he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now:
For I cannot find one wise man among you.
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.
12They change the night into day:
The light is short because of darkness.
13If I wait, the grave is mine house:
I have made my bed in the darkness.
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:
To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15And where is now my hope?
As for my hope, who shall see it?
16They shall go down to the bars of the pit,
When our rest together is in the dust.
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