1.4 KiB
1.4 KiB
Job Continues to Defend His Innocence
Chapter 17
- "My spirit is crushed,
and my life is nearly snuffed out.
The grave is ready to receive me.
- I am surrounded by mockers.
I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
- "You must defend my innocence, O God,
since no one else will stand up for me.
- You have closed their minds to understanding,
but do not let them triumph.
- They betray their friends for their own advantage,
so let their children faint with hunger.
- "God has made a mockery of me among the people;
they spit in my face.
- My eyes are swollen with weeping,
and I am but a shadow of my former self.
- The virtuous are horrified when they see me.
The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
- The righteous keep moving forward,
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
- "As for all of you, come back with a better argument,
though I still won't find a wise man among you.
- My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart's desires are broken.
- These men say that night is day;
they claim that the darkness is light.
- What if I go to the grave
and make my bed in darkness?
- What if I call the grave my father,
and the maggot my mother or my sister?
- Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?
- No, my hope will go down with me to the grave.
We will rest together in the dust!"