1 My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3 "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?
4 Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.
5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
7 My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
8 Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
10 But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
12 They make night into day; `The light,' they say, `is near to the darkness.'
13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
14 if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,'
15 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? 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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