Job 16:22-17:9

21st Century King James Version

²² When a few years have come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

17 “My spirit is spent, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

² Are there not mockers with me? And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

³ “Lay it down now, give me a surety with Thee. Who is he that will strike hands with me?

⁴ For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.

⁵ He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁶ “He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a drum to beat on.

⁷ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

⁸ Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

⁹ The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.