• Job Says He Has Become a Proverb

  • 1 “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
  • 2 “Mockers are certainly with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
  • 3 “Make a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
  • 4 “For You have kept their hearts away from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.
  • 5 “He who informs against friends for a share of the spoils, The eyes of his children also will perish.
  • 6 “But He has made me a proverb among the people, And I am one at whom people spit.
  • 7 “My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief, And all my body parts are like a shadow.
  • 8 “The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
  • 9 “Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And the one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
  • 10 “But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
  • 11 “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, The wishes of my heart.
  • 12 “They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
  • 13 “If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
  • 14 If I call to the grave, ‘You are my father’; To the maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’;
  • 15 Where then is my hope? And who looks at my hope?
  • 16 “Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”