1 “My spirit is crushed, my days are over; a17:1 Lit. extinguished it’s the grave for me! ISV — Job 17:1
2 Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night. ISV — Job 17:2
3 Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor? ISV — Job 17:3
4 “Because you’re the one who closed their hearts to compassion; b17:4 Lit. understanding therefore, you won’t let them triumph. ISV — Job 17:4
5 Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, c17:5 Or inheritance even the eyes of his children will fail. ISV — Job 17:5
6 “He has made me a byword among people; I’m being spit on in the face. ISV — Job 17:6
7 My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow. ISV — Job 17:7
8 The upright are appalled over this, and the innocent person is troubled by the godless. ISV — Job 17:8
9 But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.” ISV — Job 17:9
10 “Come here now, all of you, and I won’t find a wise person among you. ISV — Job 17:10
11 My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart’s desires. ISV — Job 17:11
12 They have transformed night into day— ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is about to become dark.’ ISV — Job 17:12
13 “If my hope were that my house is the afterlife d17:13 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the realm of the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, ISV — Job 17:13
14 if I call out to the Pit, e17:14 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife ‘You’re my father!’ or say to the worm, f17:14 i.e. an agent of punishment in the afterlife ‘My mother!’ or ‘My sister!’ ISV — Job 17:14
15 where would my hope be? “And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? ISV — Job 17:15
16 Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors g17:16 The Heb. lacks that lock the doors of the afterlife? h17:16 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the realm of the dead Will we descend together into the dust?” ISV — Job 17:16