Book of Job, Chapter 17
Job 17 NWT - New World TranslationChapter 17 of Job—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ “My very spirit[a] has been broken,1 my own days have been extinguished;
The graveyard is for me.2 - ¶ Certainly there is mockery at me,3
And amid their rebellious behavior my eye lodges. - ¶ Please, do put my security with yourself.4
Who else is there that will shake hands5 with me in pledge? - ¶ For their heart you have closed to discretion.6
That is why you do not exalt them. - ¶ He may tell companions to take their shares,
But the very eyes of his sons will fail.7 - ¶ And he has set me forth as a proverbial saying8 of peoples,
So that I become someone into whose face to spit.9 - ¶ And from vexation my eye grows dimmer10
And my members are all of them like the shadow. - ¶ Upright people stare in amazement at this,
And even the innocent one gets excited over the apostate. - ¶ The righteous one keeps holding fast to his way,11
And the one with clean hands12 keeps increasing in strength.13 - ¶ However, YOU men may all of YOU resume. So come on, please,
As I do not find anyone wise among YOU.14 - ¶ My own days have passed along,15 my own plans have been torn apart,16
The wishes of my heart. - ¶ Night they keep putting for day:17
‘Light is near on account of darkness.’ - ¶ If I keep waiting, Sheʹol is my house;18
In the darkness19 I shall have to spread out my lounge. - ¶ To the pit20 I shall have to call out, ‘You are my father!’
To the maggot,21 ‘My mother and my sister!’ - ¶ So where, then, is my hope?22
And my hope—who is it that beholds it? - ¶ To the bars of Sheʹol[b] they[c] will go down,
When we, all together, must descend to the very dust.”23
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, “breath.” See 12:10 ftn, “Spirit.”
- ^ “Sheol.” Heb., sheʼolʹ; Gr., haiʹden; Lat., in·ferʹnum. See App 4B.
- ^ “They,” fem., referring to “hope,” twice in vs 15.
REFERENCES
- ^ Is 57:15
- ^ Ps 88:4; Is 38:10
- ^ Ps 35:16; Heb 11:36
- ^ 1Sa 25:29; Ps 119:122
- ^ 2Ki 10:15; Pr 11:21; 17:18
- ^ 2Sa 17:14; Is 6:10; Mt 11:25; Ro 11:8
- ^ Jb 11:20
- ^ Jb 30:9; Ps 69:11
- ^ Jb 30:10
- ^ Jb 16:16; Ps 6:7; 31:9
- ^ Ps 119:165; Pr 4:8
- ^ Ge 20:5; Ps 24:4; 26:6
- ^ Ps 84:7
- ^ Jb 6:29; Ro 1:22
- ^ Jb 7:6; 9:25; Is 38:10
- ^ Jm 4:13
- ^ Is 5:20; Jn 3:19
- ^ Ec 12:5, 7
- ^ Jb 10:21; Is 47:5
- ^ Ps 30:3; 49:9; 143:7; Pr 1:12; Is 14:15; Jon 2:6
- ^ Jb 24:20; Is 14:11; Mr 9:48
- ^ Jb 7:6; 14:19; 19:10
- ^ Ge 3:19; Jb 3:19; Ec 3:20
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