Job17:1 My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Job17:2 Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
Job17:3 'Lay down a pledge for me with thyself;who is there that will give surety for me?
Job17:4 Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.
Job17:5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.
Job17:6 'He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
Job17:7 My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
Job17:8 Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
Job17:9 Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
Job17:10 But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
Job17:11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
Job17:12 They make night into day;The light,' they say, is near to the darkness.'
Job17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
Job17:14 if I say to the pit, You are my father,' and to the worm, My mother,' or My sister,'
Job17:15 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
Job17:16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?'