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Job 17

1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
11My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”