Jubilee2000 - Job - 17

17:1  My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.

17:2  [Now there are] only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues [to gaze].

17:3  Put up now, give me surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?

17:4  For with these, thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore, thou shalt not exalt [them].

17:5  He that speaks flattery to [his] neighbour, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.

17:6  He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before [them] I have been as a tambourine.

17:7  My eyes are dim by reason of sorrow, and all my thoughts [are] as a shadow.

17:8  Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

17:9  The righteous shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

17:10  But return all of you, and come now; for I shall not find [one that is] wise among you.

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

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

17:13  If I wait, Sheol [is] my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

17:14  I have said to the pit, Thou [art] my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister.

17:15  And where shall my hope be now? As for my hope, who shall see it?

17:16  They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, and together they shall rest in the dust.: