Job 16:22-17:9

Common English Bible

²² A number of years will surely pass,
    and then I’ll walk a path that I won’t return.

17 My spirit is broken,
    my days extinguished,
    the grave,^[a] mine.
² Surely mockers are with me,
    and my eye looks on their rebellion.
³ Take my guarantee.
    Who else is willing to make an agreement?
⁴ You’ve closed their mind to insight;
    therefore, you won’t be exalted.
⁵ He denounces his friends for gain,
    and his children’s eyes fail.
⁶ He makes me a popular proverb;
    I’m like spit in people’s faces.
⁷ My eye is weak from grief;
    my limbs like a shadow—all of them.
⁸ Those who do the right thing are amazed at this;
    the guiltless become troubled about the godless.
⁹ The innocent clings to his way;
    the one whose hands are clean grows stronger.