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| Job 17:1 | My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine. | My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me. |
| Job 17:2 | Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation? | Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. |
| Job 17:3 | Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me? | Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine. |
| Job 17:4 | For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them]. | You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour. |
| Job 17:5 | He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail. | As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children. |
| Job 17:6 | And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face. | He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport. |
| Job 17:7 | And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. | My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade. |
| Job 17:8 | Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly; | The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers. |
| Job 17:9 | But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength. | Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength. |
| Job 17:10 | But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you. | But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you. |
| Job 17:11 | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart. | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart. |
| Job 17:12 | They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness. | They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark. |
| Job 17:13 | If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: | If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; |
| Job 17:14 | I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! | If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; |
| Job 17:15 | And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it? | Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? |
| Job 17:16 | It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust. | Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust? |
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