Job 16:22-17:9

Amplified Bible

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“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

Job Says He Has Become a Byword

17 “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.
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“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.

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“Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death];
Who is there that will ^[a]be my guarantor and give security for me?
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“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].
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“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.

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“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,
And I have become one in whose face people spit.
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“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
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“The upright will be [astonished and] appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted.
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“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.^(A)