Job Chapter 17 Back Next{17:1} "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the
grave is ready for me.
{17:2} Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
{17:3} "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
{17:4} For you have hidden their
heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
{17:5} He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
{17:6} "But he has made me a
byword of the people. They spit in my face.
{17:7} My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
{17:8} Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
{17:9} Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
{17:10} But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
{17:11} My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
{17:12} They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of
darkness.
{17:13} If I look for [6>]
Sheol[<6] as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
{17:14} If I have said to corruption, 'You are my
father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
{17:15} where then is my
hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
{17:16} Shall it go down with me to the
gates of Sheol, or descend together into the
dust?"
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