Jó 17

1 "My spirit is consumed.

2 Surely there are mockers with me.

3 "Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.

4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding,

5 He who denounces his friends for plunder,

6 "But he has made me a byword of the people.

7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.

8 Upright men will be astonished at this.

9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way.

10 But as for you all, come back.

11 My days are past.

12 They change the night into day,

13 If I look for Sheol as my house,

14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’

15 where then is my hope?

16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,