Jó 17

¹ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, Graves are [ready] for me.

² Surely there are mockers with me, And my eye dwells on their provocation.

³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with yourself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

⁴ For you have hid their heart from understanding: Therefore you will not exalt [them].

⁵ He who denounces his companions for a prey, Even the eyes of his sons will fail.

⁶ But he has made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

⁷ My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

⁸ Upright men will be astonished at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

⁹ Yet will the righteous hold on his way, And he who has clean hands will wax stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But as for all of you{+}, come on now again; And I will not find a wise man among you{+}.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

¹² They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near to the darkness.

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, You are my father; To the worm, [You are] my mother, and my sister;

¹⁵ Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who will see it?

¹⁶ You will go down with me to Sheol. Shall we not go down together to the dust?