Hiob 17

¹My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
²Are there not mockers around me? and doth [ergänzt: not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
³Lay down now [ergänzt: a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
⁴For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [ergänzt: them].
⁵He that betrayeth friends for a prey -- even the eyes of his children shall fail.
⁶And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
⁷And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
⁸Upright men [ergänzt: shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
⁹But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
¹⁰But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
¹²They change the night into day; the light [ergänzt: they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
¹³If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
¹⁴I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
¹⁵And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
¹⁶It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [ergänzt: our] rest shall be together in the dust.

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