Job 17:1
My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves are for me.
Job 17:2
If not--mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
Job 17:3
Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
Job 17:4
For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
Job 17:5
For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
Job 17:6
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Job 17:7
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
Job 17:8
Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
Job 17:9
And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And--dumb are they all.
Job 17:10
Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
Job 17:11
My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
Job 17:12
Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness.
Job 17:13
If I wait--Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Job 17:14
To corruption I have called: --`Thou art my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' --to the worm.
Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
Job 17:16
To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.