Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
Job 17:2
Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation?
Job 17:3
Lay down now a pledge , be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
Job 17:4
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them .
Job 17:5
He that betrayeth friends for a prey--even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 17:6
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
Job 17:7
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
Job 17:9
But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
Job 17:10
But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12
They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.
Job 17:13
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Job 17:14
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
Job 17:15
And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:16
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust.