Job 17:1
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
Job 17:2
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
Job 17:3
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
Job 17:4
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
Job 17:5
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 17:6
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Job 17:7
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
Job 17:8
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
Job 17:9
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
Job 17:10
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11
My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
Job 17:12
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Job 17:14
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Job 17:15
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
Job 17:16
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”