Job 16:22-17:9
International Standard Version
22 For when only a few years have elapsed,
I’ll start down a path from which I’ll never return.”
Job Laments and Prepares for Death
17 “My spirit is crushed,
my days are over;[a]
it’s the grave for me!
2 Mockers surround me;
I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.
3 Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf.
Is there anyone who will be my guarantor?
4 “Because you’re the one who closed their hearts to compassion;[b]
therefore, you won’t let them triumph.
5 Now as for the one who testifies against his friends
to take their property,[c]
even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 “He has made me a byword among people;
I’m being spit on in the face.
7 My eyes have grown weak from grief;
and my whole body is as thin as a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled over this,
and the innocent person is troubled by the godless.
9 But the righteous person will hold to his way,
and those with clean hands will grow stronger and 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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