1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me. ASV — Job 17:1
2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation. ASV — Job 17:2
3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me? ASV — Job 17:3
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]. ASV — Job 17:4
5 He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. ASV — Job 17:5
6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face. ASV — Job 17:6
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. ASV — Job 17:7
8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. ASV — Job 17:8
9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. ASV — Job 17:9
10 But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you. ASV — Job 17:10
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. ASV — Job 17:11
12 They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness. ASV — Job 17:12
13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; ASV — Job 17:13
14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister; ASV — Job 17:14
15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? ASV — Job 17:15
16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust. ASV — Job 17:16