【Job】Chapter 17 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

17:1 My spirit is broken, my lamp of life extinguished; my burial is at hand.

17:2 I am indeed mocked, and, as their provocation mounts, my eyes grow dim.

17:3 Grant me one to offer you a pledge on my behalf: who is there that will give surety for me?

17:4 You darken their minds to knowledge; therefore they do not understand.

17:5 My lot is described as evil,

17:6 and I am made a byword of the people; their object lesson I have become.

17:7 My eye has grown blind with anguish, and all my frame is shrunken to a shadow.

17:8 Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent aroused against the wicked.

17:9 Yet the righteous shall hold to his way, and he who has clean hands increase in strength.

17:10 But turn now, and come on again; for I shall not find a wise man among you!

17:11 My days are passed away, my plans are at an end, the cherished purposes of my heart.

17:12 Such men change the night into day; where there is darkness they talk of approaching light.

17:13 If I look for the nether world as my dwelling, if I spread my couch in the darkness,

17:14 If I must call corruption "my father," and the maggot "my mother" and "my sister,"

17:15 Where then is my hope, and my prosperity, who shall see?

17:16 Will they descend with me into the nether world? Shall we go down together into the dust?

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