rsv - 17

rsv@Job:17:1 @ My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

rsv@Job:17:2 @ Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

rsv@Job:17:3 @ "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?

rsv@Job:17:4 @ Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.

rsv@Job:17:5 @ He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.

rsv@Job:17:6 @ "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

rsv@Job:17:7 @ My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

rsv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

rsv@Job:17:9 @ Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

rsv@Job:17:10 @ But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

rsv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

rsv@Job:17:12 @ They make night into day; `he light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'

rsv@Job:17:13 @ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

rsv@Job:17:14 @ if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,'

rsv@Job:17:15 @ where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

rsv@Job:17:16 @ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

Job 17