Job 17 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 My spirit being destroyed my days were extinct; the 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 mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness? 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 Set up now, pledge me with thee: who is he will strike for my 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 didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt 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 will commence evils for a position, and the eyes of his sons shall be 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 He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face. “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 mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them. 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 shall be astonished upon this, and the innocent Shall arouse himself 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 just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add 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 ye all shall turn back, and come ye now, and I shall not find a wise one 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 passed away, my purposes were broken; 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 will set the night for day: the light being near from the face 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 shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread 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 I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and 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 now my hope? and my hope who shall regard it? where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
16 They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to 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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