KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 17
1 Job appeals from men to Jehovah. 6 The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. 11 His hope is not in life, but in death.
1¶ My spirit is in trouble; my days are extinguished; graves are for me.
2If not there were mockers with me, and my eye rests on their insults.
3Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself; who is he who will strike my hand with me?
4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not exalt them.
5For a share he makes known to friends ; even his son's eyes shall be consumed.
6He has also set me as a byword of the peoples, and I am a spitting to the faces.
7And my eye is dim from grief; and all my members are all of them like a shadow.
8Upright ones shall be amazed at this; and the innocent one shall stir himself against the godless one.
9And the righteous one shall hold firmly on his way; and he of clean hands adds strength.
10¶ And now all of them, go back and please come again; and I shall not find among you a wise man.
11My days have passed; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
12They set night for day; light is near in the face of darkness.
13If I wait for Sheol as my house, I have spread out my bed in the darkness;
14I have called to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister.
15And where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
16They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our descent together is in the dust.
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