Job 17
17
Job Prays for Relief
1My spirit is broken, my days are extinct,
the grave is ready for me.
2Surely there are mockers around me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3“Lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is there that will give surety for me?
4Since you have closed their minds to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5Those who denounce friends for reward—
the eyes of their children will fail.
6“He has made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom people spit.
7My eye has grown dim from grief,
and all my members are like a shadow.
8The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
9Yet the righteous hold to their way,
and they that have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
10But you, come back now, all of you,
and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
11My days are past, my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
12They make night into day;
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’#17.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
13If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in darkness,
14if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
16Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall we descend together into the dust?”
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Job 17
17
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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