Job 17
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1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.1"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me!
2Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.2Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.
3“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?3Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor?
4Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.4"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.
5He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.5Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.6"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face.
7My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.7My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow.
8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.8The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless.
9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.9But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger."
10But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.10"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you.
11My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.11My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires.
12They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’12They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.'
13If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,13"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,
14if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’14if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!'
15where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?15where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it?
16Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”16Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"
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