1 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.
2 I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.
3 Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.
4 Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.
5 He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
7 My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
8 The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.
9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
11 My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
12 They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
13 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
14 If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
15 Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
16 All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
Versículos relacionados com Job, 17:
In Job chapter 17, the protagonist continues to mourn his difficult situation and the lack of hope he feels about the future. He feels despised by his friends and abandoned by God. Following are five verses related to the topics covered in this chapter:
Psalm 88:8: "I pushed my acquaintances out of your eyes; I made myself a horror for them. I'm closed and I can't leave." This verse portrays the loneliness that Job feels and how he moved away from his acquaintances because of the suffering he is going through.
Isaiah 53:3: "He was despised, and the most rejected among men, a man of pain, and experienced in work; and, as one of whom men hid their face, was despised, and we did not do it at all." This verse talks about how Job feels despised and rejected by his friends and even God.
Psalm 88:15: "I am distressed and about to die from my youth; I carry upon me the terrors I provoke, and I am completely desperate." This verse describes Job's desperate condition, which feels that it has been carrying the weight of suffering since its youth.
Lamentations 3:18: "And said, My strength and my hope was consumed in the Lord." Job feels that he has lost all his strength and hope, especially in relation to God, and that he has nothing more to hold on.
Psalm 22:14: "I am poured out as water, and all my bones are distressed; my heart is like wax, melted in the middle of my bowels." This verse illustrates the physical and emotional weakness that Job feels, comparing it with water and melted wax.
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