Job
Chapter 17World English Bible
Berean Standard Bible
1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
My days have passed; my plans are broken off - even the desires of my heart.
12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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