Job 16:22–17:9

22 Indeed, after ⌊a few years⌋r have come,

thens I will go the way from which I will not return.

Job’s Fifth Speech, Continued

17 “My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished;

the graveyard is for me.

2 ⌊Surely⌋a mockery is with me,

and my eye ⌊rests⌋b on their provocation.

3 Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself;

who is he who will give security for my hand?c

4 Indeed,d you have closed their mind from understanding;

therefore, you will not let them triumph.

5 He denounces friends for reward,

soe his children’s eyes will fail.

6 “And he has made me a proverb forf the peoples,

⌊and I am one before whom people spit⌋.g

7 And my eye has grown dim from grief,

and the limbs of my body are allh like a shadow.

8 The upright are appalled at this,

and the innocent excites himself over the godless.

9 Buti the righteous holds on to his way,

and ⌊he who has clean hands⌋j increases in strength.