17Job 17

1The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.Select Job 17:1

2I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.Select Job 17:2

3I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.Select Job 17:3

4You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.Select Job 17:4

5In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it.Select Job 17:5

6And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.Select Job 17:6

7My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.Select Job 17:7

8Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless.Select Job 17:8

9Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.Select Job 17:9

10But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise.Select Job 17:10

11My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.Select Job 17:11

12But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness.Select Job 17:12

13My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.Select Job 17:13

14I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.Select Job 17:14

15Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?Select Job 17:15

16Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.Select Job 17:16