Job 17

^{Job 17:1} “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

^{Job 17:2} Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

^{Job 17:3} Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

^{Job 17:4} You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

^{Job 17:5} If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

^{Job 17:6} He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

^{Job 17:7} My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

^{Job 17:8} The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

^{Job 17:9} Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

^{Job 17:10} But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

^{Job 17:11} My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.

^{Job 17:12} They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

^{Job 17:13} If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

^{Job 17:14} and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

^{Job 17:15} where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

^{Job 17:16} Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”