Chapter:

The Book of Job

American Standard Version

Jb 17:1	My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.
Jb 17:2	Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Jb 17:3	Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?
Jb 17:4	For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Jb 17:5	He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Jb 17:6	But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
Jb 17:7	Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Jb 17:8	Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Jb 17:9	Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
Jb 17:10	But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.
Jb 17:11	My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
Jb 17:12	They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
Jb 17:13	If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Jb 17:14	If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
Jb 17:15	Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Jb 17:16	It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.