Job 17 HCSB NLT Parallel

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◄ Job 17 ►

Holman Christian Standard Bible

New Living Translation

1My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me.

1“My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.

2Surely mockers surround me and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

2I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.

3Make arrangements! Put up security for me. Who else will be my sponsor?

3“You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me.

4You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore You will not honor them.

4You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph.

5If a man informs on his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

5They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.

6He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at.

6“God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.

7My eyes have grown dim from grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow.

7My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.

8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are roused against the godless.

8The virtuous are horrified when they see me. The innocent rise up against the ungodly.

9Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.

9The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.

10But come back and try again, all of you. I will not find a wise man among you.

10“As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t find a wise man among you.

11My days have slipped by; my plans have been ruined, even the things dear to my heart.

11My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.

12They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

12These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.

13If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,

13What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?

14and say to corruption: You are my father, and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,

14What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?

15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

15Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?

16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?

16No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!”