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Job 17

1 My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.

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

2 Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

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

3 “Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?

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

4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.

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

5 If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.

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

6 “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

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

7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

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

8 The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.

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

9 Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.

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

10 “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.

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

11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart

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

12 turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.

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

13 If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

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

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

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

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

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

16 Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

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

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