Job 17

Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)

World English Bible

1My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.

1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

2I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

3Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man’s hand fight against me.

3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

4Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.

4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

5He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.

5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

6He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

7My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

8The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.

8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

9And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

10Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.

10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

11My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.

11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

12They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.

12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

14If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

15Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

16All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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