Job 17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ “My spirit has been broken, my days have been extinguished, burial-sites are for me.

² Truly, mockeries are with me, and my eye rests on their insults!

³ Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who would strike hands with me?

⁴ For You have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore You do not exalt them.

⁵ He who denounces friends for a share, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁶ But He has made me a byword of the people, whereas in former times I was as a drum.

⁷ And from sorrow my eye has grown dim, and all my members are like shadows.

⁸ Upright ones are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the defiled one.

⁹ And the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands becomes stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But please, come back again, all of you, for I do not find a wise one among you.

¹¹ My days have passed by, my plans have been broken off – the desires of my heart.

¹² They would turn night into day, saying that light is near, in the presence of darkness!

¹³ If I wait – She’ol is my house, I shall make my bed in darkness,

¹⁴ I shall say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ – to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’

¹⁵ Where then is my expectancy? As for my expectancy, who would see it?

¹⁶ Would it sink down into She’ol? Would we together go down into the dust?”