1 My spirit is broken, my days are over and the grave awaits me.
2 Mockers surround me; my eyes grow dim with nights of bitterness.
3 Sponsor me, O God, since no one will support me.
4 You have closed their minds so they will not dare.
5 Who will help a friend when his sons are in need?
6 I have been made everybody's byword, a man in whose face people spit.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, my frame shrunken to a shadow.
8 At this, upright men are appalled, and the guiltless rail against the wicked.
9 The righteous feel at ease and those with clean hands are strengthened.
10 But come on again, all of you; I will not find a single sage among you.
11 My days are ended, my plans shattered, and so my heart desires
12 the night when it is day, the coming of light as soon as it darkens.
13 Where is my hope? The grave is my home, in the darkness I spread out my bed,
14 I must call corruption "my father," and the worm "my mother" or "my sister."
15 What can I wait for, and who will see any hope for me?
16 Will it go down to the bars of death, shall we descend together into the dust?
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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