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Job 17
WEB
World English Bible · 2000
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.
1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves <FI>are<Fi> for me.
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
2If not--mockeries <FI>are<Fi> with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
2Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?
3Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
3Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
4For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
4For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
5He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
5For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
5He that betrayeth friends for a prey — even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
6And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
7And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
7And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
8Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
8Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
8Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
9And the righteous layeth hold <FI>on<Fi> his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And--dumb are they all.
9But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
10But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.
10Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
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 thoughts of my heart.
11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
12They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
12Night for day they appoint, Light <FI>is<Fi> near because of darkness.
12They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
13If I wait--Sheol <FI>is<Fi> my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;
14To corruption I have called: --`Thou <FI>art<Fi> my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' --to the worm.
14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!