YouVersion Logo
Search Icon

Job 17

17
1My spirit is consumed.
My days are extinct
and the grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me.
My eye dwells on their provocation.
3Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.
6But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this.
The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, come back.
I will not find a wise man amongst you.
11 My days are past.
My plans are broken off,
as are the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day,
saying ‘The light is nearin the presence of darkness.
13If I look for Sheol#17:13 Sheol is the place of the dead. as my house,
if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ andMy sister,’
15where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who will see it?
16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,#17:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.
or descend together into the dust?”

Currently Selected:

Job 17: WMBBE

Highlight

Share

Copy

None

Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in