Job 17 — JPSTN

17My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.²Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.³Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?⁴For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.⁵He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.⁶He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.⁷Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.⁸Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.⁹Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.¹²They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.¹³If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;¹⁴If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';¹⁵Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?¹⁶They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.