Job 17
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Chapter 17
Job continues to speak
1I am very weak and I will soon die.
Then my friends will bury me in my grave.
2All around me, people are laughing at me.
I have to watch them as they insult me.
3God, please help me to become free again.
Nobody else will pay the price to do that for me.
4You have stopped my friends from thinking properly.
So do not allow them to win the argument.
5People may turn against their friends
to get things for themselves.
If they do that, their children should become blind.
6You have caused people to insult me,
like that proverb says.
People even spit at my face.
7I have cried so much that my eyes have become weak.
My body is so thin that I am like a shadow.
8Good people are upset,
when they see what is happening to me.
They are angry with those who turn away from you.
9 Righteous people continue to do things that are right.
People who do good things become stronger.
10But you, my friends, come here!
Try again to help me, all of you!
I will not find a wise man among you.
11I will not live for many more days.
I will never do the things that I wanted to do.
12My friends say, “It is day”,
when it is still night.
They do not know the difference between light and dark.
13The only home that I hope to go to is my grave.
I will lie down to sleep there in the dark.
14I will say to the grave,
“You are my father.”
I will say to the worms that eat me,
“Hello, my mother. Hello, my sister.”
15I can hope for nothing that is better than that.
No one can find anything better for me.
16When I go to the world of dead people,
all my hope will have finished.
Everything that I had hoped for will lie with me in the dust.’
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