Job 17 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not. “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 Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods. 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 Who is this? let him join hands 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 thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt 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 He shall promise mischief to his companions: but their eyes have failed for their children. 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 But thou has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to 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 For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all. 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 Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor. 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 let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage. 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 Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in 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 in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken. 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 I have turned the night into day: the light is short 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 For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. 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 have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and 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 then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good? where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
16 Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb? 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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