Job 17
:1
17:1
My spirit is
abroken;
My days are extinct;
The graveyard is
ready for me.
Job 17
:2
17:2
Surely there are mockers with me,
And my eye lingers on their provocation.
Job 17
:3
17:3
Lay down now a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is he who will
1strike hands with me?
Job 17
:4
17:4
For You have hidden their heart from insight;
Therefore You will not exalt
them.
Job 17
:5
17:5
He who denounces his friends for a share
of the profit taken,
Even the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 17
:6
17:6
But He has made me a
abyword of the people,
And I have become one on whom they may spit.
Job 17
:7
17:7
And my eye has grown dim because of the sorrow,
And my members are all like a shadow.
Job 17
:8
17:8
The upright are appalled at this,
And the innocent stir themselves up against the profane man.
Job 17
:9
17:9
Yet the righteous man will hold fast to his way,
And he whose
ahands are clean will wax yet stronger.
Job 17
:10
17:10
But all of you, come back now,
And I will not find a wise man among you.
Job 17
:11
17:11
My days have passed; broken are my plans,
The cherished thoughts of my heart.
Job 17
:12
17:12
They change night into day;
The light is near,
they say in the face of darkness.
Job 17
:13
17:13
If I wait for
aSheol as my house;
If I spread my couch in the darkness;
Job 17
:14
17:14
If I call out to the pit, You are my father;
You are my mother and my sister, to the worm;
Job 17
:15
17:15
Where then is my hope?
Indeed, my hope, who will see it?
Job 17
:16
17:16
It will go down to the bars of Sheol,
When, at the same time,
we have rest in the
adust.
