Job 17
1
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2
Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
3
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike
hands with me?
4
For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
5
He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children
shall fail.
6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they
spit.
7
Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
8
Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the
godless.
9
Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger
and stronger.
10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among
you.
11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12
They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
13
If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
14
If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother,
and my sister';
15
Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
16
They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in
the dust.