Job 16:22-17:9
Evangelical Heritage Version
22 A few more years will come.
Then I will go the way of no return.
17 My spirit is broken.
My days are snuffed out.
The tomb is waiting for me.
2 Surely mockery closes in on me.
My eyes must live with my enemies’ bitter contempt.
3 Please pay for me the deposit that you require from me.
Indeed, who else could guarantee this payment for me?
4 You have hidden understanding from their hearts.
Therefore, you will not let them win.
5 If someone denounces friends for a payoff,
his children’s eyes will fail.
6 He has made me a laughingstock among the people.
They spit in my face.
7 My vision is blurry from grief.
I am just a shadow of myself.
8 The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent are aroused against the godless.
9 In spite of it all, the righteous hold tight to their ways,
and everyone with clean hands grows stronger.
Job 16:22-17:9
Lexham English Bible
Job’s Fifth Speech, Continued
17 “My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished;
the graveyard is for me.
2 Surely[c] mockery is with me,
and my eye rests[d] on their provocation.
3 Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is he who will give security for my hand?[e]
4 Indeed,[f] you have closed their mind from understanding;
therefore, you will not let them triumph.
5 He denounces friends for reward,
so[g] his children’s eyes will fail.
6 “And he has made me a proverb for[h] the peoples,
and I am one before whom people spit.[i]
7 And my eye has grown dim from grief,
and the limbs of my body are all[j] like a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent excites himself over the godless.
9 But[k] the righteous holds on to his way,
and he who has clean hands[l] increases in strength.
Footnotes
- Job 16:22 Literally “years of number”
- Job 16:22 Hebrew “and”
- Job 17:2 Literally “If not”
- Job 17:2 Literally “spends the night”
- Job 17:3 Or “who will give security for me?”
- Job 17:4 Or “For”
- Job 17:5 Hebrew “and”
- Job 17:6 Hebrew “of”
- Job 17:6 Literally “and spitting to the faces I am”
- Job 17:7 Hebrew “all of them”
- Job 17:9 Hebrew “And”
- Job 17:9 Literally “the clean of hands”
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