Job 17 LSV

1. “My spirit has been destroyed, my days extinguished—graves are for me.

2. If not—mockeries are with me. And my eye lodges in their provocations.

3. Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?

4. For You have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore You do not exalt them.

5. For a portion he shows friendship, and the eyes of his sons are consumed.

6. And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, and I am a wonder before them.

7. And my eye is dim from sorrow, and my members—all of them—as a shadow.

8. The upright are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the profane.

9. And the righteous lays hold on his way, and the clean of hands adds strength.

10. But please return and come in, all of you, and I do not find a wise man among you.

11. My days have passed by, my plans have been broken off, the possessions of my heart!

12. They appoint night for day, light is near because of darkness.

13. If I wait—Sheol is my house, in darkness I have spread out my bed.

14. To corruption I have called: You are my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.

15. And where is my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?

16. You go down to the parts of Sheol, if we may rest together on the dust.”