Job Chapter 17
1 My spirit’s broken; my days are snuffed out;
people have already dug my grave.
2 Mockers sit around
and taunt me to my face.
Job 16:18-17:2
3 “God, sign a pledge for me;
who else will put up security for me?
4 You’ve kept them from understanding;
so don’t let them triumph.
5 They inform against their friends
to get a share of their property;
so let their children pass out from hunger.
Job 17:3-5
6 “God has made me a byword among people;
I’m someone they spit at.
7 My sight is blurry from grieving;
my neighbors look like shadows.
8 Godly people are appalled at such a thing;
innocent people oppose the godless.
9 The righteous hold onto their way;
the ones with clean hands grow stronger.
Job 17:6-9
10 “All of you, if you come again,
I still won’t find a wise man among you.
11 My days are done;
my hopes are dashed;
my heart’s desires are gone.
12 You friends claim night is day and say,
‘Light amounts to darkness.’
13 If I look for the grave to be my house
and spread my couch in the darkness,
14 if I say to the pit, ‘My mother,’
or ‘My sister,’
15 where’s my hope?
Who even cares about my hope?
16 It’ll go down to Sheol with me;
we’ll go down in the ground together.”
Job 17:10-16