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The Book of Job

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- Chapter 17 -

Job asks for relief

1
“My time to live is almost ended; I have no strength left; those who have dug my grave are waiting for me.
2
Those who are around me are making fun of me; I must always see them mocking me.”
3
“God, it is as though I were in prison; please pay the money in order that I may be released, because there is certainly no one else who will help me.
4
You have prevented my friends from understanding what is true about me, but you will not allow them to triumph over me, saying that I have done wrong things.
5
Our ancestors said, ’It often happens that when someone betrays his friends in order to get some of their property, it is that person’s children who will be punished for it;’ so I desire that will be true of these friends of mine who are lying about me.
6
But now people use that saying of our ancestors when they talk about me; they spit to insult me.
7
My eyes have become dim because I am very sad, and my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
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People who are truly righteous will be shocked when they see what has happened to me; they will be angry at those who refuse to honor God.
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Those who are truly righteous will continue to do what is right, and those who live righteously will continue to become stronger.
10
But all you friends of mine, I do not find even one among you who is wise.
11
My time to live is almost ended; I have not been able to do the things that I planned to do. As for the things I have most desired, there is no hope of them happening.
12
My friends do not know when it is night and when it is day; when it is night, they claim that it is daylight; when it is becoming dark, they claim that it is getting light.
13
I know that my home will be the place where dead people are, where I will sleep in the darkness.
14
I can say to the grave, ‘Where I am buried, that place will be like a father to me.’ I can say to the maggots, ‘You will be like a mother or younger sisters to me because that is where I will always be.’
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There is certainly no more hope left for me. No one expects that I will have any more happiness.
16
After I descend to the place where the dead are, I will not be able to expect anything good there. I and the things I hope for will go down together into the soil.”
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Job asks for relief

1
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3
“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5
He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
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“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
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Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10
But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
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My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
12
They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
13
If I look for Sheol (a) as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
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where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
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Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,(b) or descend together into the dust?”

Footnotes

(a)17:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.
(b)17:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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