The Book of Job 17 |
The World English Online Bible (WLD) |
Job 17:1 | "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. |
Job 17:2 | Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation. |
Job 17:3 | "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? |
Job 17:4 | For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them. |
Job 17:5 | He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
Job 17:6 | "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. |
Job 17:7 | My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. |
Job 17:8 | Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. |
Job 17:9 | Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. |
Job 17:10 | But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you. |
Job 17:11 | My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart. |
Job 17:12 | They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. |
Job 17:13 | If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness, |
Job 17:14 | If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' |
Job 17:15 | Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? |
Job 17:16 | Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?" |