Job 17

1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.Cross-references: Job 6:11 · Job 17:13 · Job 19:17 · Job 42:16 · Ps 88:3 · Isa 38:10 · +1 more

2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:6 · Job 12:4 · Job 13:9 · Job 16:20 · Job 21:3 · Ps 25:13 · +3 more

3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?Cross-references: Gen 43:9 · Gen 44:32 · Job 9:33 · Ps 119:122 · Prov 6:11 · Prov 11:15 · +5 more

4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:14 · 2Chr 25:16 · Isa 19:14 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 13:11 · +2 more

5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Deut 28:65 · 1Ki 11:12 · Job 11:20 · Job 32:21 · Ps 12:2 · +4 more

6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.Cross-references: Gen 31:27 · 1Ki 9:7 · Job 30:9 · Ps 44:14 · Isa 5:12

7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.Cross-references: Job 16:8 · Job 16:16 · Ps 6:7 · Ps 31:9 · Ps 109:23 · Eccl 6:12 · +1 more

8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.Cross-references: Job 22:19 · Job 34:30 · Ps 73:12 · Eccl 5:8 · Hab 1:13 · Acts 13:46 · +1 more

9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.Cross-references: Gen 20:5 · Job 22:30 · Ps 24:4 · Ps 26:6 · Ps 73:13 · Ps 84:7 · +10 more

10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.Cross-references: Job 6:29 · Job 12:2 · Job 15:9 · Job 17:4 · Job 32:9 · Job 42:7 · +3 more

11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.Cross-references: Job 7:6 · Job 9:25 · Prov 16:9 · Prov 19:21 · Eccl 9:10 · Isa 8:10 · +5 more

12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.Cross-references: Deut 28:67 · Job 7:3 · Job 7:13 · Job 24:14

13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,Cross-references: Job 3:13 · Job 10:21 · Job 14:14 · Job 17:1 · Job 30:23 · Ps 27:14 · +3 more

14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’Cross-references: Job 13:28 · Job 19:26 · Job 21:26 · Job 21:32 · Job 24:20 · Job 30:30 · +7 more

15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?Cross-references: Job 4:6 · Job 6:11 · Job 7:6 · Job 13:15 · Job 19:10

16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”Cross-references: Job 3:17 · Job 18:13 · Job 33:18 · Ps 88:4 · Ps 143:7 · Isa 38:17 · +3 more