1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. NHEB — Job 17:1
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. NHEB — Job 17:2
3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? NHEB — Job 17:3
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them. NHEB — Job 17:4
5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. NHEB — Job 17:5
6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. NHEB — Job 17:6
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. NHEB — Job 17:7
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. NHEB — Job 17:8
9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. NHEB — Job 17:9
10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you. NHEB — Job 17:10
11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. NHEB — Job 17:11
12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. NHEB — Job 17:12
13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, NHEB — Job 17:13
14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' NHEB — Job 17:14
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? NHEB — Job 17:15
16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?" NHEB — Job 17:16