AFV2020 - Job - 17

17:1  "My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

17:2  Are not mockers with me? Yea, my eye gazes upon their insults.

17:3  Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself; who is he who will strike hands with me?

17:4  For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not lift them up.

17:5  He who denounces his friend for flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

17:6  He has made me also a byword of the people; and I have become one in whose face they spit.

17:7  My eyes also are dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.

17:8  Upright men shall be amazed at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the godless.

17:9  The righteous also shall hold on to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

17:10  And now all of them, go away, and come again; for I cannot find one wise man among you.

17:11  My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

17:12  They change night into day; the light is short because of darkness.

17:13  If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;

17:14  I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother and my sister!'

17:15  And where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

17:16  They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when we rest together in the dust."