LEB - Job - 17

17:1  “My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me.

17:2  ⌞Surely⌟ mockery is with me, and my eye ⌞rests⌟ on their provocation.

17:3  Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand?

17:4  Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let them triumph.

17:5  He denounces friends for reward, so his children’s eyes will fail.

17:6  “And he has made me a proverb for the peoples, ⌞and I am one before whom people spit⌟.

17:7  And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.

17:8  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent excites himself over the godless.

17:9  But the righteous holds on to his way, and ⌞he who has clean hands⌟ increases in strength.

17:10  But ⌞all of you must return⌟—⌞please come⌟! But I shall not find a wise person among you.

17:11  “My days are past; my plans are broken down— even the desires of my heart.

17:12  They make night into day, saying, ‘Light is ⌞near to darkness⌟.’

17:13  If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness,

17:14  if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or my sister,’

17:15  where then is my hope? And ⌞who will see my hope⌟?

17:16  Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?”