Job 17 NKJV NLT Parallel

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◄ Job 17 ►

New King James Version

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1“My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

1“My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.

2Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

2I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.

3“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?

3“You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me.

4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.

4You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph.

5He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

5They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.

6“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.

6“God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.

7My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.

7My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.

8Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

8The virtuous are horrified when they see me. The innocent rise up against the ungodly.

9Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

9The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.

10“But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.

10“As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t find a wise man among you.

11My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

11My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.

12They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.

12These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.

13If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,

13What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?

14If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’

14What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?

15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?

15Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?

16Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?”

16No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!”