Job - Chapter 17 - A Conservative Version
- My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
- Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
- Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
- For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].
- He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
- But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
- My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
- Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
- Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
- But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
- My days are past. my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
- They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.
- If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
- if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
- where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
- It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.