Job 17 (NET)

Job 17:1¹My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:2²Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:3³Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:4⁴Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:5⁵If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:6⁶He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:7⁷My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:8⁸Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:9⁹But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:10¹⁰“But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:11¹¹My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:12¹²These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:13¹³If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:14¹⁴if I cry out to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:15¹⁵where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 17:16¹⁶Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s