Job 17
Legacy Standard Bible
Job Seeks Hope
17 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;
The [a](A)grave is ready for me.
2 (B)Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye [b]gazes on their provocation.
3 “Establish, now, a pledge (C)for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will clap my hand in pledge?
4 For You have (D)hidden their heart from insight,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
5 He who (E)informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The (F)eyes of his children also will come to an end.
6 “But He has made me a (G)byword of the people,
And I am [c]one at whom men (H)spit.
7 My eye has also grown (I)dim because of grief,
And all my (J)members are as a shadow.
8 The upright will be appalled at this,
And the (K)innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
9 Nevertheless (L)the righteous will hold to his way,
And (M)he who has clean hands will grow mightier and mightier.
10 But come again all of [d]you now,
For I (N)do not find a wise man among you.
11 My (O)days are past; my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.
12 They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
13 If I hope for (P)Sheol as my home,
I [e]make my bed in the darkness;
14 If I call to the (Q)pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the (R)worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
15 Where now is (S)my hope?
And who beholds my hope?
16 [f]Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together (T)go down into the dust?”
Iob 17
Biblia Sacra Vulgata
17 Spiritus meus attenuabitur; dies mei breviabuntur: et solum mihi superest sepulchrum.
2 Non peccavi, et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus.
3 Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te, et cujusvis manus pugnet contra me.
4 Cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina: propterea non exaltabuntur.
5 Praedam pollicetur sociis, et oculi filiorum ejus deficient.
6 Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.
7 Caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus, et membra mea quasi in nihilum redacta sunt.
8 Stupebunt justi super hoc, et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur.
9 Et tenebit justus viam suam, et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem.
10 Igitur omnes vos convertimini, et venite, et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem.
11 Dies mei transierunt; cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt, torquentes cor meum.
12 Noctem verterunt in diem, et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.
13 Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est, et in tenebris stravi lectulum meum.
14 Putredini dixi: Pater meus es; Mater mea, et soror mea, vermibus.
15 Ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea? et patientiam meam quis considerat?
16 In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea: putasne saltem ibi erit requies mihi?
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