Job 17장
1
My spirit is broken, my lamp of life extinguished; my burial is at hand.
2
I am indeed mocked, and, as their provocation mounts, my eyes grow dim.
3
Grant me one to offer you a pledge on my behalf: who is there that will give surety for me?
4
You darken their minds to knowledge; therefore they do not understand.
5
My lot is described as evil,
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and I am made a byword of the people; their object lesson I have become.
7
My eye has grown blind with anguish, and all my frame is shrunken to a shadow.
8
Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent aroused against the wicked.
9
Yet the righteous shall hold to his way, and he who has clean hands increase in strength.
10
But turn now, and come on again; for I shall not find a wise man among you!
11
My days are passed away, my plans are at an end, the cherished purposes of my heart.
12
Such men change the night into day; where there is darkness they talk of approaching light.
13
If I look for the nether world as my dwelling, if I spread my couch in the darkness,
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If I must call corruption "my father," and the maggot "my mother" and "my sister,"
15
Where then is my hope, and my prosperity, who shall see?
Job 17장
