Job 17
21st Century King James Version
17 “My spirit is spent, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers with me? And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3 “Lay it down now, give me a surety with Thee. Who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 “He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a drum to beat on.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 “But as for you all, do ye return and come now, for I cannot find one 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 is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, ‘Thou art my father’; to the worm, ‘Thou art my mother and my sister.’
15 And where is now my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
16 It shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”
Job 17
American Standard Version
17 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are [a]mockers with me,
And mine eye dwelleth 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 hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5 He that denounceth his friends for a [b]prey,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 But he hath made me a byword of the people;
And they spit in my face.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
And all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this,
And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,
And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, come on now again;
[c]And I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
Even the [d]thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day:
The light, say they, is near [e]unto the darkness.
13 If I [f]look for Sheol as my house;
If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
14 If I have said to [g]corruption, Thou art my father;
To the worm, Thou art 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.
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