Job 17

1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.YLT — Job 17:1

2 If not — mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.YLT — Job 17:2

3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?YLT — Job 17:3

4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.YLT — Job 17:4

5 For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.YLT — Job 17:5

6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.YLT — Job 17:6

7 And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.YLT — Job 17:7

8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.YLT — Job 17:8

9 And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And — dumb are they all.YLT — Job 17:9

10 Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.YLT — Job 17:10

11 My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!YLT — Job 17:11

12 Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.YLT — Job 17:12

13 If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.YLT — Job 17:13

14 To corruption I have called: — ‘Thou [art] my father.’ ‘My mother’ and ‘my sister’ — to the worm.YLT — Job 17:14

15 And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?YLT — Job 17:15

16 [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.YLT — Job 17:16