Parallel Bible results for "job 17:2-12"

Job 17:2-12

2 I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.

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

3 I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.

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

4 You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.

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

5 In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it.

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

6 And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.

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

7 My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.

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

8 Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless.

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

9 Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.

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

10 But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise.

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

11 My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.

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

12 But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness.

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