Job 17
Reading Job chapter 17 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.
Verses 1–10
1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves are for me.
2 If not--mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
5 For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
7 And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
9 And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And--dumb are they all.
10 Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
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