1 “My spirit is crushed; my life is extinguished; the grave is ready for me. 2 Mockers surround me. I see how bitterly they ridicule me. 3 God, you need to put down a pledge for me with yourself, for who else will be my guarantor? 4 You have closed their minds to understanding, so do not let them win! 5 They betray friends to gain benefit for themselves and their children suffer for it. 6 He has made me a proverb of ridicule among the people; they spit in my face. 7 My eyes are worn out from crying and my body is a shadow of its former self. 8 People who think they are good are shocked to see me. Those who are innocent are troubled by the godless. 9 Those who are right keep going, and those whose hands are clean grow stronger and stronger. 10 Why don't you come back and repeat again what you've been saying?—yet I still won't find a wise man among you! 11 My life is over. My plans are gone. My heart is broken. 12 They turn night into day, and say that daylight is close to darkness. 13 What am I looking for? To make my home in Sheol, to make my bed in darkness? 14 Should I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister? 15 So then where is my hope? Can anyone see any hope for me? 16 Will hope go down with me to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Job 17 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 38:10–14; Psalm 88:3–5; Job 17:13–14; Job 42:16; Job 6:11
- 2 Job 12:4; Job 16:20; 1 Samuel 1:6–7; Matthew 27:39–44; Psalm 35:14–16
- 3 Hebrews 7:22; Proverbs 11:15; Isaiah 38:14; Genesis 44:32; Psalm 119:122
- 4 Matthew 11:25; Matthew 13:11; 2 Samuel 17:14; Isaiah 19:14; 1 Corinthians 1:20
- 5 Psalm 12:2–3; Proverbs 20:19; Proverbs 29:5; Exodus 20:5; 1 Kings 11:12
- 6 Job 30:9; Psalm 44:14; 1 Kings 9:7; Isaiah 5:12; Genesis 31:27
- 7 Psalm 6:7; Job 16:16; Psalm 31:9–10; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Lamentations 5:17
- 8 Habakkuk 1:13; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Job 34:30; Job 22:19; Romans 11:33
- 9 Proverbs 4:18; Isaiah 1:15–16; Job 22:30; Psalm 84:7; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10
- 10 Job 42:7; Job 6:29; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 6:5; Job 17:4
- 11 Job 7:6; Isaiah 38:10; Proverbs 16:9; James 4:13–15; Isaiah 8:10
- 12 Job 24:14–16; Job 7:13–14; Job 7:3–4; Deuteronomy 28:67
- 13 Job 10:21–22; Job 30:23; Job 3:13; Psalm 139:8; Job 14:14
- 14 Psalm 16:10; Job 24:20; Acts 13:34–37; Job 21:32–33; Job 30:30
- 15 Job 13:15; Job 19:10; Job 4:6; Job 6:11; Job 7:6
- 16 Job 3:17–19; Jonah 2:6; Ezekiel 37:11; Isaiah 38:17–18; Job 18:13–14
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