Job 17

1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.DBY — Job 17:1

2 Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?DBY — Job 17:2

3 Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?DBY — Job 17:3

4 For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].DBY — Job 17:4

5 He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail.DBY — Job 17:5

6 And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.DBY — Job 17:6

7 And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.DBY — Job 17:7

8 Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;DBY — Job 17:8

9 But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.DBY — Job 17:9

10 But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.DBY — Job 17:10

11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.DBY — Job 17:11

12 They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.DBY — Job 17:12

13 If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:DBY — Job 17:13

14 I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!DBY — Job 17:14

15 And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?DBY — Job 17:15

16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.DBY — Job 17:16