Job17
Job’s Fifth Speech, Continued
1“My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished;the graveyard is for me.2⸤Surely⸥ mockery is with me,and my eye ⸤rests⸥ on their provocation.3Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself;who is he who will give security for my hand? 4Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding;therefore, you will not let them triumph.5He denounces friends for reward,so his children’s eyes will fail.6“And he has made me a proverb for the peoples,⸤and I am one before whom people spit⸥. 7And my eye has grown dim from grief,and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.8The upright are appalled at this,and the innocent excites himself over the godless.9But the righteous holds on to his way,and ⸤he who has clean hands⸥ increases in strength.10But ⸤all of you must return⸥ —⸤please come⸥! But I shall not find a wise person among you.11“My days are past; my plans are broken down—even the desires of my heart.12They make night into day,saying, ‘Light is ⸤near to darkness⸥.’ 13If I hope for Sheol as my house,if I spread my couch in the darkness,14if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or my sister,’15where then is my hope?And ⸤who will see my hope⸥? 16Will they go down to the bars of Sheol?Or shall we descend together into the dust?”Logos Bible Software