“My breath is corrupt. My days are extinct. The grave is ready for me.”
Job 17
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1"My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
“my spirit is broken. My days are exhausted. The grave is ready for me.”
2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
“Surely mockers are with me. My eye gazes on their provocation.”
3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
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4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
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5If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
“He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.”
“he that speaks flattery to his friends, even in the eyes of his children, shall fail.”
6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
“He hath made me also a byword of the people. And aforetime I was a tablet.”
7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
“Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.”
8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
“Upright men shall be astonished at this. And the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.”
“Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.”
9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
“The righteous also shall hold on his way. And he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.”
10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
“But as for you all, do you return and come now? For I cannot find one wise man among you.”
11My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
“My days are past. My purposes are broken off. Even the thoughts of my heart,”
“My days are past. My purposes are broken off. The cherished thoughts of my heart.”
12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
“they change the night into day. The light is short because of darkness.”
13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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14and say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'
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15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
“And where is now my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?”
16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?"
“They shall go down to the bars of the pit when our rest together is in the dust.”