Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

17 “My spirit is broken; my days are jextinct;

kthe graveyard is ready for me.

2  Surely there are mockers about me,

and my eye dwells on their lprovocation.

3  “Lay down a pledge for me with you;

who is there who will put up msecurity for me?

4  Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,

therefore you will not let them triumph.

5  He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—

the neyes of his children will fail.

6  “He has made me oa byword of the peoples,

and I am one before whom men spit.

7  My peye has grown dim from vexation,

and all my members are like qa shadow.

8  The upright are rappalled at this,

and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

9  Yet the righteous holds to his way,

and he who has sclean hands grows stronger and stronger.

10  But you, tcome on again, all of you,

and I shall not find a wise man among you.