Job 17
Job Says He Has Become A Byword
The grave is ready for me.
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.
Who is there that will be my guarantor and give security for me?
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.
And I have become one in whose face people spit.
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted.
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Even though I do not find a wise man among you.
The wishes of my heart [are broken].
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
If I make my bed in the darkness,
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’
And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?
Shall we go down together in the dust?”
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