Job 17
Magandang Balita Biblia
17 Gulung-gulo ang aking isipan, bilang na ang aking mga araw,
hinihintay na ako ng libingan.
2 Pinagmamasdan ko ang sa akin ay lumalait, mga salita nila'y lubhang masasakit.
3 O Diyos, ako'y tapat, kaya sa aki'y magtiwala,
ikaw lang ang makapagpapatunay sa aking mga salita.
4 Isip nila'y sinarhan mo upang di makaunawa;
laban sa akin, huwag nawa silang magtagumpay.
5 Siyang dahil sa salapi ay nagtataksil sa mga kaibigan,
kanyang mga anak ang siyang mawawalan.
6 Ako ngayo'y pinag-uusapan ng buong bayan,
pinupuntahan pa upang maduraan lamang.
7 Halos ako'y mabulag dahil sa kalungkutan,
kasingnipis ng anino ang buo kong katawan.
8 Mga nagsasabing sila'y tapat sa akin ay nagulat,
ang mga walang sala, sa aki'y nanunumbat.[a]
9 Ngunit ang mga matuwid ay lalong naniniwala,
at lalo pang nahikayat na sila nga ang tama.
10 Subalit silang lahat, humarap man sa akin,
wala akong maituturo na may talinong angkin.
11 “Tapos na ang mga araw ko, bigo ang aking mga plano,
ang aking pag-asa'y tuluyan nang naglaho.
12 Sabi nila, ang gabi ay araw na rin,
malapit na raw ang liwanag,
ngunit alam kong ako'y nasa dilim pa rin.
13 Ang tanging pag-asa ko'y ang daigdig ng mga patay,
at sa kadiliman doon ako mahihimlay.
14 Ang hukay ay tatawagin kong ama,
at ang mga uod ay ituturing kong mga kapatid at ina.
15 Nasaan nga ang aking pag-asa,
sino ang dito ay makakakita?
16 Madadala ko ba ito sa daigdig ng mga patay,
sasama ba ito sa alabok na hantungan?”
Footnotes
- Job 17:8 sa aki'y nanunumbat: o kaya'y nagalit sa mga hindi kumikilala sa Diyos .
Job 17
Amplified Bible
Job Says He Has Become a Byword
17 “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.
2
“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.
3
“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?
4
“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].
5
“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.
6
“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,
And I have become one in whose face people spit.
7
“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
8
“The upright will be [astonished and] appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted.
9
“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.(A)
10
“But as for all of you, come back again,
Even though I do not find a wise man among you.
11
“My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;
The wishes of my heart [are broken].
12
“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
13
“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
14
If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’
15
Where now is my hope?
And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?
16
“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?
Shall we go down together in the dust?”
Footnotes
- Job 17:3 Lit strike hands with me.
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