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Job 17 (GN)

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¹ The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave. ² I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me. ³ I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say. ⁴ You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now. ⁵ In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it. ⁶ And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face. ⁷ My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows. ⁸ Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless. ⁹ Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right. ¹⁰ But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise. ¹¹ My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone. ¹² But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness. ¹³ My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark. ¹⁴ I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters. ¹⁵ Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any? ¹⁶ Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.