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Job 17
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Surely there are mockers with me.
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
He who denounces his friends for plunder,
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
“But he has made me a byword of the people.
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
Upright men will be astonished at this.
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
But as for you all, come back.
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
They change the night into day,
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house,
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”