Job 16:22-17:9

Jubilee Bible 2000

²² When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

17 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.

² Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.

³ Put up now, give me surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

⁴ For with these, thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore, thou shalt not exalt them.

⁵ He that speaks flattery to his neighbour, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.

⁶ He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before them I have been as a tambourine.

⁷ My eyes are dim by reason of sorrow, and all my thoughts are as a shadow.

⁸ Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

⁹ The righteous shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.