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| Job 17:1 | My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. | "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. | My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me. | My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished graves [are] for me. |
| Job 17:2 | Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? | Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation. | Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. | If not mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. |
| Job 17:3 | Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? | "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike 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. | Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me? |
| Job 17:4 | For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. | For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them. | You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour. | For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them. |
| Job 17:5 | He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. | He who denounces his 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. | For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed. |
| Job 17:6 | He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. | "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. | He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport. | And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am. |
| Job 17:7 | Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. | My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. 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. | And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. |
| Job 17:8 | Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. | Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. | The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers. | Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up. |
| Job 17:9 | The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. | Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. | Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength. | And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And dumb are they all. |
| Job 17:10 | But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. | But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you. | But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you. | Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man. |
| Job 17:11 | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. | My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart. | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart. | My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! |
| Job 17:12 | They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. | They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. | They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark. | Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness. |
| Job 17:13 | If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. | If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness, | If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; | If I wait Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. |
| Job 17:14 | I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou are my mother, and my sister. | If I have said to corruption, 'You are 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; | To corruption I have called: `Thou [art] my father.` `My mother` and `my sister` to the worm. |
| Job 17:15 | And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? | Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? | Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? | And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? |
| Job 17:16 | They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. | Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?" | Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust? | [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest. |
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