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Job 17 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Job Says He Has Become a Byword

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:1 -

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,

The grave is ready for me.

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“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,

And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.

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“Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death];

Who is there that will [fn]be my guarantor and give security for me?

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“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,

Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].

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“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,

The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.

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“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,

And I have become one in whose face people spit.

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“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,

And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

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“The upright will be [astonished and] appalled at this,

And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted.

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“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,

And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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“But as for all of you, come back again,

Even though I do not find a wise man among you.

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“My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;

The wishes of my heart [are broken].

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“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;

‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

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“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,

If I make my bed in the darkness,

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If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;

And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

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Where now is my hope?

And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

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“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?

Shall we go down together in the dust?”

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