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Job 17

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

1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

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

2 Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

3 Make arrangements! Put up security for me. Who [else] will be my sponsor?

3 “Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?

4 You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore You will not honor [them].

4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

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

5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—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.

6 “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

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

7 My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

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

8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

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

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

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

10 But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall 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.

11 My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

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

12 They make night into day: ‘The light, ’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness. ’

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

13 If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

14 and say to the Pit: You are my father, and to the worm: My mother or my sister,

14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father, ’and to the worm, ‘My mother, ’ or ‘My sister, ’

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

15 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

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

16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust? ”