Job 17

New American Standard Bible

³ “Make a pledge ^(C)for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will ^[c]be my guarantor?
⁴ For You have ^[d](D)kept their hearts away from understanding;
Therefore You will not exalt them.
⁵ He who ^(E)informs against friends for a share of the spoils,
The ^(F)eyes of his children also will perish.

⁶ “But He has made me a ^(G)proverb among the people,
And I am ^[e]one at whom people ^(H)spit.
⁷ My eye has also become ^(I)inexpressive because of grief,
And all my ^(J)body parts are like a shadow.
⁸ The upright will be appalled at this,
And the ^(K)innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
⁹ Nevertheless ^(L)the righteous will hold to his way,
And ^(M)the one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
¹⁰ But come again all of ^[f]you now,
For I ^(N)do not find a wise man among you.
¹¹ My ^(O)days are past, my plans are torn apart,
The wishes of my heart.
¹² They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
¹³ If I hope for ^[g](P)Sheol as my home,
I ^[h]make my bed in the darkness;
¹⁴ If I call to the ^(Q)grave, ‘You are my father’;
To the ^(R)maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’;
¹⁵ Where then is ^(S)my hope?
And who looks at my hope?
^16 [i]Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together ^(T)go down into the dust?”