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Job 17

¹The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.

²I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.

³I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.

⁴You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.

⁵In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it.

⁶And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.

⁷My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.

⁸Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless.

⁹Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.

¹⁰But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise.

¹¹My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.

¹²But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness.

¹³My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.

¹⁴I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.

¹⁵Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?

¹⁶Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.