Job 17

²Surely there are mockers with me.

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

⁴For you have hidden their heart from understanding,

⁵He who denounces his friends for plunder,

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

⁷My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.

⁸Upright men will be astonished at this.

⁹Yet the righteous will hold to his way.

¹⁰But as for you all, come back.

¹¹My days are past.

¹²They change the night into day,

¹³If I look for Sheol as my house,

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

¹⁵where then is my hope?

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