Job 17 — TOJB

17Verse 1My ruach is broken,
my yamim are extinct,
the kevarim are ready for me.
^{Verse 2}Does not hatulim (mockery) surround me?
And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
^{Verse 3}Lay down an eravon (pledge) with Thee;
who is he that will put up security for me?
^{Verse 4}For Thou hast hid their lev from seichel;
therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
^{Verse 5}He that informs on re'im for chelek,
even the eyes of his banim shall fail.^{Verse 6}He hath made me also a mashal (byword) of the peoples;
and I am one in whose face they spit.
^{Verse 7}Mine eye also is dim by reason of ka'as,
and all my members are like a tzel (shadow).
^{Verse 8}Yesharim shall be appalled at this
and the naki (pure, innocent) shall stir up himself against the chanef (profane, irreligious).
^{Verse 9}The tzaddik also shall hold to his derech,
and he whose yadayim are tahor shall grow stronger and stronger.
^{Verse 10}But as for all you, do ye return, and come back now;
for I cannot find one chacham among you.
^{Verse 11}My yamim are past,
my plans are broken,
even the morashot (possessions, desires) of my lev.
^{Verse 12}They change the lailah into yom;
the ohr is near to choshech, say they.
^{Verse 13}If I wait, Sheol is mine bais;
I have made my bed in the choshech.
^{Verse 14}I have said to Shachat, thou art avi;
to the worm, thou art immi, and achoti.
^{Verse 15}And where is now my tikveh?
As for my tikveh, who regards it?
^{Verse 16}Will it go down to the gates of Sheol?
Shall we go down together into the dust?