17:1 "My spirit has broken, my days have become extinguished, The grave has become ready for me. |
17:2 " Surely mockers dwell with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation. |
17:3 "Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who will serve as my guarantor? |
17:4 "For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them. |
17:5 "He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish. |
17:6 "But He has made me a byword of the people, And men spit at me. |
17:7 "My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members resemble shadows. |
17:8 "The upright will feel appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless. |
17:9 "Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. |
17:10 "But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you. |
17:11 "My days have passed, my plans have torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart. |
17:12 "They make night into day, saying, 'The light has drawn near,' in the presence of darkness. |
17:13 "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; |
17:14 If I call to the pit, 'You I acknowledge as my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister'; |
17:15 Where now do I find my hope? And who regards my hope? |
17:16 "Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?" |