Job 17 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, & the graue is readie for me. “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
2 There are none but mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in their bitternesse. Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
3 Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand? “Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? “Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie. Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends. He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.
6 Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them. “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
7 Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe. My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
8 The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite. The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
9 But the righteous wil holde his way, & he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength. Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
10 All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you. But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
11 My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart
12 Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse. They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’ turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.
13 Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke. If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
14 I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister. if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 Where is then now mine hope? or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for? where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
16 They shal goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust. Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?” Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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