The Book of Job 17 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Job 17:1 | My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished graves [are] for me. |
Job 17:2 | If not mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. |
Job 17:3 | Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me? |
Job 17:4 | For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them. |
Job 17:5 | For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed. |
Job 17:6 | And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am. |
Job 17:7 | And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. |
Job 17:8 | Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up. |
Job 17:9 | And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And dumb are they all. |
Job 17:10 | Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man. |
Job 17:11 | My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! |
Job 17:12 | Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness. |
Job 17:13 | If I wait Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. |
Job 17:14 | 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? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? |
Job 17:16 | [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest. |