Job 17 | BSB Bible Study

Job 17:1 (BSB)
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Job 17:2 (BSB)
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

Job 17:3 (BSB)
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

Job 17:4 (BSB)
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

Job 17:5 (BSB)
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 17:6 (BSB)
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Job 17:7 (BSB)
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

Job 17:8 (BSB)
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

Job 17:9 (BSB)
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Job 17:10 (BSB)
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

Job 17:11 (BSB)
My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

Job 17:12 (BSB)
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

Job 17:13 (BSB)
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:14 (BSB)
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 17:15 (BSB)
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

Job 17:16 (BSB)
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

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