Job 16:16–17:10

16  My face bis foul with weeping,

And on my eyelids is cthe shadow of death;

17  dNot for any injustice in mine hands:

Also my prayer is pure.

18  O earth, ecover not thou my blood,

And let fmy cry have no place.

19  Also now, behold, gmy witness is in heaven,

And my record is †on high.

20  My friends †scorn me:

But mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

21  O that one might hplead for a man with God,

As a man pleadeth for his ||neighbour!

22  When †a few years are come,

Then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

17 ||My breath is corrupt,

My days are aextinct,

bThe graves are ready for me.

2  Are there not mockers with me?

And doth not mine eye †continue in their provocation?

3  Lay down now, cput me in a surety with thee;

Who is he that dwill strike hands with me?

4  For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:

Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

5  He that speaketh flattery to his friends,

Even ethe eyes of his children shall fail.

6  He hath made me also fa byword of the people;

And ||aforetime I was as a tabret.

7  gMine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,

And all ||my members are has a shadow.

8  Upright men shall be iastonied at this,

And the innocent shall jstir up himself against the hypocrite.

9  The righteous also shall hold on his way,

And he that hath kclean hands †shall be stronger and stronger.

10  But as for you all, ldo ye return, and come now:

For I cannot find one wise man among you.