Job

Chapter 17

Job โ€” Berean Standard Bible

Chapter 17

๐ŸŒ™ Evening Reading โ€” February 17

โ€œMy spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;

the grave awaits me.

2 Surely mockers surround me,

and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand.

Who else will be my guarantor?

4 You have closed their minds to understanding;

therefore You will not exalt them.

5 If a man denounces his friends for a price,

the eyes of his children will fail.

6 He has made me a byword among the people,

a man in whose face they spit.

7 My eyes have grown dim with grief,

and my whole body is but a shadow.

8 The upright are appalled at this,

and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way,

and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

10 But come back and try again, all of you.

For I will not find a wise man among you.

11 My days have passed; my plans are broken offโ€”

even the desires of my heart.

12 They have turned night into day,

making light seem near in the face of darkness.

13 If I look for Sheol as my home,

if I spread out my bed in darkness,

14 and say to corruption, โ€˜You are my father,โ€™

and to the worm, โ€˜My mother,โ€™ or โ€˜My sister,โ€™

15 where then is my hope?

Who can see any hope for me?

16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol?

Will we go down together into the dust?โ€

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