Job 17
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Job 17
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| My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me. | My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me. |
| Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. | Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation. |
| Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine. | Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me? |
| You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour. | For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]. |
| As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children. | He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
| He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport. | But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face. |
| My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade. | Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. |
| The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers. | Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. |
| Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength. | Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. |
| But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you. | But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you. |
| My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart. | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. |
| They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark. | They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness. |
| If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; | If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; |
| If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; | If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister; |
| Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? | Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust? | It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust. |
