Job 17 — ASV

17Verse 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is ready for me.
^{Verse 2}Surely there are mockers with me,
And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.^{Verse 3}Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;
Who is there that will strike hands with me?
^{Verse 4}For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
^{Verse 5}He that denounceth his friends for a prey,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.^{Verse 6}But he hath made me a byword of the people;And they spit in my face.
^{Verse 7}Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
And all my members are as a shadow.
^{Verse 8}Upright men shall be astonished at this,
And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
^{Verse 9}Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,
And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
^{Verse 10}But as for you all, come on now again;
And I shall not find a wise man among you.
^{Verse 11}My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.
^{Verse 12}They change the night into day:
The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
^{Verse 13}If I look for Sheol as my house;
If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
^{Verse 14}If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father;
To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
^{Verse 15}Where then is my hope?
And as for my hope, who shall see it?
^{Verse 16}It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,
When once there is rest in the dust.