17Job 17

1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.Select Job 17:1

2Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?Select Job 17:2

3Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?Select Job 17:3

4For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.Select Job 17:4

5He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.Select Job 17:5

6He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.Select Job 17:6

7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.Select Job 17:7

8Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.Select Job 17:8

9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.Select Job 17:9

10But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.Select Job 17:10

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

12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.Select Job 17:12

13If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.Select Job 17:13

14I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.Select Job 17:14

15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?Select Job 17:15

16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.Select Job 17:16