| 17:1 |
"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. |
| 17:2 |
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. |
| 17:3 |
"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? |
| 17:4 |
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them. |
| 17:5 |
He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
| 17:6 |
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. |
| 17:7 |
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. |
| 17:8 |
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. |
| 17:9 |
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. |
| 17:10 |
But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you. |
| 17:11 |
My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. |
| 17:12 |
They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. |
| 17:13 |
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, |
| 17:14 |
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' |
| 17:15 |
where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| 17:16 |
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?" |
