Job:17

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* My spirit is broken , my days are cut short , the grave is ready for me . * Yet truly those that mock are with me , and on their offendings must my eye rest . * And thou , attend , I pray thee , be my surety with thyself : who else is there that would strike hands with me ? * For thou hast concealed their heart against intelligence : therefore art thou not exalted . * Every one of them speaketh deceptively to his friends : may also the eyes of his children fail . * And he hath placed me here as a by –word unto nations ; and I become openly as a place of abomination . * Therefore is my eye dim from vexation , and my limbs are all of them like a shadow . * Upright men must be astonished at this , and the innocent must arouse himself against the hypocrite . * Yet will the righteous hold firmly on to his way ; and he that is clean of hands will acquire additional strength . * But all of you , do only return , and come but : and yet I shall not find among you one wise man . * My days are past , my resolves are broken off , ––the possessions of my heart . * These would change the night into day , the light as near in the presence of darkness .–– * When I hope for the nether world as my house ; in the darkness have I spread my couch ; * When I call to corruption , Thou art my father : Thou art my mother , and my sister , to the worms . * Ay , where is then my hope ? as for my hope , who will see it ? * Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world : truly in the dust alone there is rest for all .

---