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Job 17
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
2Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.
2Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
3Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
3Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
4You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
4For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
5As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
5He that betrayeth friends for a prey — even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
6And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
7And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
8The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.
8Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
9Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
9But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
10But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.
10But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
12They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
14If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!