Job
Chapter 17
- 1
My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.
- 2
I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.
- 3
Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.
- 4
Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.
- 5
He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.
- 6
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
- 7
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
- 8
The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.
- 9
And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
- 10
Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
- 11
My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
- 12
They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
- 13
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
- 14
If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
- 15
Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
- 16
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?