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Job 17

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 "My spirit is broken, my days are quenched, I am marked for the grave.

2 Mockers are all around me; my eye meets only their hostility.

3 Be my guarantor, yourself! Who else will put up a pledge for me?

4 For you have shut their minds to common sense; therefore you will not let them triumph.

5 Should people share with their friends when their own children's eyes are so sad?

6 "He has made me a byword among the peoples, a creature in whose face they spit.

7 I am nearly blind with grief, my limbs reduced to a shadow.

8 The upright are perplexed at this, the innocent aroused against the hypocrites.

9 Yet the righteous hold on to their way, and those with clean hands grow stronger and stronger.

10 "But as for you all, turn around! Come back! -yet I won't find a wise man among you.

11 My days are over, my plans cut off, which I had cherished so;

12 but they [try to] turn [my] night into day, [saying,] 'Light is near!'-in the face of darkness.

13 "If I hope for Sh'ol to be my house; if I spread my couch in the dark;

14 if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,'and to worms, 'You are my mother and sister,'

15 then where is my hope? And that hope of mine, who will see it?

16 Only those who go down with me to the bars of Sh'ol, when we rest together in the dust."

New Living Translation NLT

1 “My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.

2 I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.

3 “You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me.

4 You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph.

5 They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.

6 “God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.

7 My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.

8 The virtuous are horrified when they see me. The innocent rise up against the ungodly.

9 The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.

10 “As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t find a wise man among you.

11 My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.

12 These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.

13 What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?

14 What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?

15 Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?

16 No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!”