Job 17

³ “Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will ^[c]be my guarantor?
⁴ “For You have ^[d]kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
⁵ “He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will languish.

⁶ “But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am ^[e]one at whom men spit.
⁷ “My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.
⁸ “The upright will be appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
⁹ “Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
¹⁰ “But come again all of ^[f]you now,
For I do not find a wise man among you.
¹¹ “My days are past, my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.
¹² “They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
¹³ “If I look for Sheol as my home,
I ^[g]make my bed in the darkness;
¹⁴ If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
¹⁵ Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?
¹⁶ “^[h]Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”