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Job 17
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1I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain [it] not.
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2Weary I entreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3Who is this? let him join hands with me.
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4For you have hid their heart from wisdom; therefore you shall not exalt them.
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children .
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6But you have made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all .
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.
8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.
9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10Howbeit, do you⌃ all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.
10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken .
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my motherand sister.
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15Where then is yet my hope? or [where] shall I see my good?
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?
16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.