Job 17 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 17:1I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.

Job 17:2Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.

Job 17:3Who is this? let him join hands with me.

Job 17:4For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them.

Job 17:5He shall promise mischief to his companions: but their eyes have failed for their children.

Job 17:6But thou hast made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.

Job 17:7For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.

Job 17:8Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.

Job 17:9But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

Job 17:10Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

Job 17:11My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.

Job 17:12I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Job 17:13For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

Job 17:14I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.

Job 17:15Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good?

Job 17:16Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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