Job 17 — FBV
17Verse 1“My spirit is crushed; my life is extinguished; the grave is ready for me.Verse 2Mockers surround me. I see how bitterly they ridicule me.Verse 3God, you need to put down a pledge for me with yourself, for who else will be my guarantor?Verse 4You have closed their minds to understanding,+so do not let them win!Verse 5They betray friends to gain benefit for themselves and their children suffer for it.+Verse 6He has made me a proverb of ridicule+among the people; they spit in my face.Verse 7My eyes are worn out from crying and my body is a shadow of its former self.Verse 8People who think they are good are shocked to see me. Those who are innocent are troubled by the godless.+Verse 9Those who are right keep going, and those whose hands are clean grow stronger and stronger.Verse 10Why don't you come back and repeat again what you've been saying?—yet I still won't find a wise man among you!Verse 11My life is over. My plans are gone. My heart is broken.Verse 12They turn night into day, and say that daylight is close to darkness.+Verse 13What am I looking for? To make my home in Sheol,+to make my bed in darkness?Verse 14Should I call the grave+my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?Verse 15So then where is my hope? Can anyone see any hope for me?Verse 16Will hope go down with me to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”