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Job 17 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Job Says He Has Become a Byword

Job 17:1

Job 17:1“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The [fn]grave is ready for me.

Job 17:2

Job 17:2“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye [fn]gazes on their provocation.

Job 17:3

Job 17:3“Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will [fn]be my guarantor?

Job 17:4

Job 17:4“For You have [fn]kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.

Job 17:5

Job 17:5“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will languish.

Job 17:6

Job 17:6“But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am [fn]one at whom men spit.

Job 17:7

Job 17:7“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.

Job 17:8

Job 17:8“The upright will be appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.

Job 17:9

Job 17:9“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Job 17:10

Job 17:10“But come again all of [fn]you now,
For I do not find a wise man among you.

Job 17:11

Job 17:11“My days are past, my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.

Job 17:12

Job 17:12“They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.

Job 17:13

Job 17:13“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I [fn]make my bed in the darkness;

Job 17:14

Job 17:14If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

Job 17:15

Job 17:15Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?

Job 17:16

Job 17:16“[fn]Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: graves
Literally: lodges
Literally: strike hands with me
Literally: hidden
Literally: a spitting to the faces
With some ancient mss and versions; M.T. them
Literally: spread out
So the Gr; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all
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