(GWT)
Job
17
:
1
"My spirit is broken. My days have been snuffed out. The cemetery [is waiting] for me.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
2
Certainly, mockers are around me. My eyes are focused on their opposition.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
3
Please guarantee my bail yourself. Who else will guarantee it with a handshake?
(GWT)
Job
17
:
4
You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
5
(Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children's eyesight fail.)
(GWT)
Job
17
:
6
"Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people. Now they spit in my face.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
7
Now my eyes are blurred from grief. Now all my limbs are like a shadow.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
8
Decent people are shocked by this, and it stirs up the innocent against godless people.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
9
Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
10
"But now, all of you, come and try again! I won't find one wise man among you.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
11
My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams [are shattered].
(GWT)
Job
17
:
12
You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness.
(GWT)
Job
17
:
13
If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,
(GWT)
Job
17
:
14
if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and sister,'
(GWT)
Job
17
:
15
then where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me?
(GWT)
Job
17
:
16
Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?"