Job 17 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “My spirit has been destroyed, || My days extinguished—graves [are] 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 If not—mockeries [are] with me. And my eye lodges in their provocations. 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 Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me? “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 You have hidden their heart from understanding, || Therefore You do not exalt them. 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 a portion he shows friendship, || And the eyes of his sons are consumed. 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 And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder 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 And my eye is dim from sorrow, || And my members—all of them—as a shadow. 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 upright are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the profane. 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 And the righteous lays hold [on] his way, || And the clean of hands adds 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 But please return and come in, all of you, || And I do not find a wise man 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 days have passed by, || My plans have been broken off, || The possessions of my 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 They appoint night for day, || Light [is] near because of darkness. 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 If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, || In darkness I have spread out my bed. 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 To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: 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 And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it? where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
16 You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, || If we may rest together on 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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