Jó 17

¹ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.

² Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.

³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?

⁴ For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].

⁵ He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.

⁶ But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

⁷ My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

⁸ Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.

⁹ Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ My days are past. my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

¹² They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,

¹⁵ where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.