Job, Chapter 17:

Verses from Job, Chapter 17 of the book of Job in the Bible.

1. “My spirit is crushed, my days are numbered, the grave awaits me.
2. The truth is that I am surrounded by mockers, and I have to endure their hostility.
3. “Give me, O God, the guarantee you demand. Who besides you will give me security?
4. For you have closed their understanding and will not give them victory.
5. If someone betrays his friends out of greed, his children's eyes will fail.
6. “I have been made a proverb for everyone, a man whose face they spit on.
7. My eyes are clouded with sadness, my body is nothing more than a shadow.
8. Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent rise up against the wicked.
9. However, the righteous remain firm in their path, and those with pure hands grow stronger and stronger.
10. “But come, all of you, and try again! I will not find a single wise man among you.
11. My days have passed, my plans have been thwarted, my heart's desires have gone.
12. They try to turn the night into day, when they approach the darkness they say: 'The light is near'.
13. But my only home is the grave, I spread my bed in darkness.
14. I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to worms, 'You are my mother and my sister.'
15. Where, then, is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16. Will we go down to Sheol together? Will we find rest together in the dust?”