Job 17:1
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Job 17:2
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
Job 17:3
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them.
Job 17:5
He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
Job 17:6
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
Job 17:7
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
Job 17:9
Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10
But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11
My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12
They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness.
Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 17:14
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Job 17:15
where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:16
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.