Job 17 - NKJV Bible Online

Job 17

“My spirit is broken,

My days are extinguished,

^aThe grave is ready for me.

Are not mockers with me?

And does not my eye ¹dwell on their ^aprovocation?

“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.

Who is he who ^awill shake hands with me?

For You have hidden their heart from ^aunderstanding;

Therefore You will not exalt them.

He who speaks flattery to his friends,

Even the eyes of his children will ^afail.

“But He has made me ^aa byword of the people,

And I have become one in whose face men spit.

^aMy eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,

And all my members are like shadows.

Upright men are astonished at this,

And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

Yet the righteous will hold to his ^away,

And he who has ^bclean hands will be stronger and stronger.

“But please, ^acome back again, ¹all of you,

For I shall not find one wise man among you.

^aMy days are past,

My purposes are broken off,

Even the ¹thoughts of my heart.

They change the night into day;

‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.

If I wait for the grave as my house,

If I make my bed in the darkness,

If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’

And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’

Where then is my ^ahope?

As for my hope, who can see it?

Will they go down ^ato the gates of ¹Sheol?

Shall we have ^brest together in the dust?”