Home Master Index
←Prev   Job 17 as rendered by/in  Next→ 


17:1  “I am sick and near to death; the grave is ready to receive me.
17:2  I am surrounded by mockers. I see them everywhere.
17:3  Will no one anywhere confirm my innocence? But you, O God, have kept them back from understanding this. Oh, do not let them triumph.
17:4  Will no one anywhere confirm my innocence? But you, O God, have kept them back from understanding this. Oh, do not let them triumph.
17:5  If they accept bribes to denounce their friends, their children shall go blind.
17:6  “He has made me a mockery among the people; they spit in my face.
17:7  My eyes are dim with weeping and I am but a shadow of my former self.
17:8  Fair-minded men are astonished when they see me. “Yet, finally, the innocent shall come out on top, above the godless;
17:9  the righteous shall move onward and forward; those with pure hearts shall become stronger and stronger.
17:10  “As for you—all of you please go away; for I do not find a wise man among you.
17:11  My good days are in the past. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.
17:12  They say that night is day and day is night; how they pervert the truth!
17:13  “If I die, I go out into darkness, and call the grave my father, and the worm my mother and my sister.
17:14  “If I die, I go out into darkness, and call the grave my father, and the worm my mother and my sister.
17:15  Where then is my hope? Can anyone find any?
17:16  No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We shall rest together in the dust!”