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Job 17

1 "My spirit is broken, my days used up, my grave dug and waiting.

1 "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

2 See how these mockers close in on me? How long do I have to put up with their insolence?

2 Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.

3 "O God, pledge your support for me. Give it to me in writing, with your signature. You're the only one who can do it!

3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

4 These people are so useless! You know firsthand how stupid they can be. You wouldn't let them have the last word, would you?

4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.

5 Those who betray their own friends leave a legacy of abuse to their children.

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

6 "God, you've made me the talk of the town - people spit in my face;

6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

7 I can hardly see from crying so much; I'm nothing but skin and bones.

7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

8 Decent people can't believe what they're seeing; the good-hearted wake up and insist I've given up on God.

8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

9 "But principled people hold tight, keep a firm grip on life, sure that their clean, pure hands will get stronger and stronger!

9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

10 "Maybe you'd all like to start over, to try it again, the bunch of you. So far I haven't come across one scrap of wisdom in anything you've said.

10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

11 My life's about over. All my plans are smashed, all my hopes are snuffed out -

11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.

12 My hope that night would turn into day, my hope that dawn was about to break.

12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

13 If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard, if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin,

13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,

14 If a family reunion means going six feet under, and the only family that shows up is worms,

14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

15 Do you call that hope? Who on earth could find any hope in that?

15 Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

16 No. If hope and I are to be buried together, I suppose you'll all come to the double funeral!"

16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"

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