Job, 17
Job's hope in God: he expects rest in death.
[1] My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me. •
[2] I have not sinned 1, and my eye abideth in bitterness. •
Not sinned: That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me with.
[3] Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me. •
[4] Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted. •
[5] He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail. •
[6] He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them. •
[7] My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing. •
[8] The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite. •
[9] And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
[10] Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man. •
[11] My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. •
[12] They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again. •
[13] If I wait hell 1 is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. •
Hell: Sheol. The region of the dead.
[14] I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. •
[15] Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience? •
[16] All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit 1: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest? •
Deepest pit: Literally, hell.