Job 17 — ULB

17Verse 1My spirit is consumed, and my days are over;
the grave is ready for me.
^{Verse 2}Surely there are mockers with me;
my eye must always see their provocation.^{Verse 3}Give now a pledge, be a guarantee for me with yourself;
who else is there who will help me?
^{Verse 4}For you, God, have kept their hearts from understanding;
therefore, you will not exalt them over me.
^{Verse 5}He who denounces his friends for a reward,
the eyes of his children will fail.^{Verse 6}But he has made me a byword of the people;
they spit in my face.
^{Verse 7}My eye is also dim because of sorrow;
all my body parts are as thin as shadows.
^{Verse 8}Upright men will be stunned by this;
the innocent man will stir himself up against godless men.
^{Verse 9}The righteous man will keep to his way;
he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
^{Verse 10}But as for you all, come on now;
I will not find a wise man among you.
^{Verse 11}My days are past; my plans are shattered,
and so are the desires of my heart.^{+
Verse 12}These people, these mockers, change the night into day;
light is near to darkness.
^{Verse 13}If the only home I hope for is Sheol;
and if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
^{Verse 14}and if I have said to the pit, 'You are my father,'
and to the worm, 'You are my mother or my sister,'
^{Verse 15}where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who can see any?
^{Verse 16}Will hope go down with me to the gates of Sheol
when we descend to the dust?”