Job 17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard  awaits me.

² Surely mockers surround   me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

³ Accept my pledge! Put up security for me. Who else will be my sponsor?

⁴ You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not honour them.

⁵ If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

⁶ He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at.  ,

⁷ My eyes have grown dim from grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow.

⁸ The upright are appalled  at this, and the innocent are roused against the godless.

⁹ Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean  will grow stronger.

¹⁰ But come back and try again, all of you. I will not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ My days have slipped by; my plans have been ruined, even the things dear to my heart.

¹² They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

¹³ If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,

¹⁴ and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the maggot, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

¹⁵ where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

¹⁶ Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?