Job 17

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¹I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain [it] not.

¹“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

²Weary I entreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.

²Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

³Who is this? let him join hands with me.

³“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

⁴For you have hid their heart from wisdom; therefore you shall not exalt them.

⁴For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

⁵He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children .

⁵He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

⁶But you have made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.

⁶“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

⁷For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.

⁷My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

⁸Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.

⁸Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

⁹But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

⁹Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰Howbeit, do you⌃ all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

¹⁰But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

¹¹My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.

¹¹My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

¹²I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

¹²They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

¹³For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

¹³If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

¹⁴I have called upon death to be my father,and corruption [to be] my motherand sister.

¹⁴if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

¹⁵Where then is yet my hope? or [where] shall I see my good?

¹⁵where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

¹⁶Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

¹⁶Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”