Job 17 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job Says He Has Become a Byword

Job 17:1

Job 17:1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

Job 17:2

Job 17:2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

Job 17:3

Job 17:3Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

Job 17:4

Job 17:4Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

Job 17:5

Job 17:5If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 17:6

Job 17:6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

Job 17:7

Job 17:7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

Job 17:8

Job 17:8Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.

Job 17:9

Job 17:9But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Job 17:10

Job 17:10"But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.

Job 17:11

Job 17:11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

Job 17:12

Job 17:12These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'

Job 17:13

Job 17:13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:14

Job 17:14If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,'

Job 17:15

Job 17:15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

Job 17:16

Job 17:16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

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Job 17 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job Says He Has Become a Byword

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