Job 17 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Job Prays for Relief

Job 17:1

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

Job 17:2

Job 17:2Are not mockers with me?
And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

Job 17:3

Job 17:3“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
Who is he who will shake hands with me?

Job 17:4

Job 17:4For You have hidden their heart from understanding;
Therefore You will not exalt them.

Job 17:5

Job 17:5He who speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 17:6

Job 17:6“But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I have become one in whose face men spit.

Job 17:7

Job 17:7My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,
And all my members are like shadows.

Job 17:8

Job 17:8Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

Job 17:9

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

Job 17:10

Job 17:10“But please, come back again, all of you,[fn]
For I shall not find one wise man among you.

Job 17:11

Job 17:11My days are past,
My purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.

Job 17:12

Job 17:12They change the night into day;
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.

Job 17:13

Job 17:13If I wait for the grave as my house,
If I make my bed in the darkness,

Job 17:14

Job 17:14If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’

Job 17:15

Job 17:15Where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?

Job 17:16

Job 17:16Will they go down to the gates of Sheol?
Shall we have rest together in the dust?”

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NKJV Footnotes

(17:10)

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