Job 17 — LSV

17Verse 1“My spirit has been destroyed, || My days extinguished—graves [are] for me.^{Verse 2}If not—mockeries [are] with me. And my eye lodges in their provocations.^{Verse 3}Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?^{Verse 4}For You have hidden their heart from understanding, || Therefore You do not exalt them.^{Verse 5}For a portion he shows friendship, || And the eyes of his sons are consumed.^{Verse 6}And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder before them.^{Verse 7}And my eye is dim from sorrow, || And my members—all of them—as a shadow.^{Verse 8}The upright are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the profane.^{Verse 9}And the righteous lays hold [on] his way, || And the clean of hands adds strength.^{Verse 10}But please return and come in, all of you, || And I do not find a wise man among you.^{Verse 11}My days have passed by, || My plans have been broken off, || The possessions of my heart!^{Verse 12}They appoint night for day, || Light [is] near because of darkness.^{Verse 13}If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, || In darkness I have spread out my bed.^{Verse 14}To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.^{Verse 15}And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?^{Verse 16}You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, || If we may rest together on the dust.”