Job 17
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | JPS1917 |
|---|---|
| 1 | My spirit consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me. |
| 2 | Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye abideth in their provocation. |
| 3 | Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; Who else is there that will strike hands with me? |
| 4 | For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; Therefore shalt Thou not exalt them. |
| 5 | He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
| 6 | He hath made me also a byword of the people; And I am become one in whose face they spit. |
| 7 | Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, And all my members are as a shadow. |
| 8 | Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless. |
| 9 | Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, And he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger. |
| 10 | But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; And I shall not find a wise man among you. |
| 11 | My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. |
| 12 | They change the night into day; The light is short because of darkness. |
| 13 | If I look for the nether-world as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; |
| 14 | If I have said to corruption: ‘Thou art my father’, To the worm: ‘Thou art my mother, and my sister’; |
| 15 | Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| 16 | They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, When we are at rest together in the dust. |