Job 17

World English Bible

Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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