Job 17
17
1 MY SPIRIT is broken, my days are spent (snuffed out); the grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers and mockery around me, and my eye dwells on their obstinacy, insults, and resistance.
3 Give me a pledge with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death]; who is there that will give security for me?
4 But their hearts [Lord] You have closed to understanding; therefore You will not let them triumph [by giving them a verdict against me].
5 He who denounces his friends [in order to make them] a prey and get a share, the eyes of his children shall fail [to find food].
6 But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face.
7 My eye has grown dim because of grief, and all my members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonished and appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the godless and polluted.
9 Yet shall the righteous (those upright and in right standing with God) hold to their ways, and he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. [Ps. 24:4.]
10 But as for you, come on again, all of you, though I find not a wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated; even the thoughts (desires and possessions) of my heart [are broken off].
12 These [thoughts] extend from the night into the day, [so that] the light is short because of darkness.
13 But if I look to Sheol (the unseen state) as my abode, if I spread my couch in the darkness,
14 If I say to the grave and corruption, 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],
15 Where then is my hope? And if I have hope, who will see [its fulfillment]?
16 [My hope] shall go down to the bars of Sheol (the unseen state) when once there is rest in 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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