1. “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
2.
-“Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
3.
“Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
4.
-“For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.
5.
-“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
6.
“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
7.
-“My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
8.
-“The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
9.
-“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10.
-“But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
11.
-“My 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 look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
14.
If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
15.
Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
16.
-“Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”
JOB (16:17)
1. “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
2.
-“Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
3.
“Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
4.
-“For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.
5.
-“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
6.
“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
7.
-“My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
8.
-“The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
9.
-“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10.
-“But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
11.
-“My 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 look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
14.
If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
15.
Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
16.
-“Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”
JOB (16:17)
