Job 17 — JPSTN
17Verse 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.Verse 2Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.Verse 3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?Verse 4For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.Verse 5He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.Verse 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.Verse 7Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.Verse 8Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.Verse 9Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.Verse 10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.Verse 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.Verse 12They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.Verse 13If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;Verse 14If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';Verse 15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?Verse 16They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.