Job 17.5
English standard version

¹ My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the graveyard is ready for me.
² Surely there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
³ Lay down a pledge for me with you;
who is there who will put up security 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&emdash;
the eyes of his children will fail.
⁶ He has made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom men spit.
⁷ My eye has grown dim from vexation,
and all my members are like a shadow.
⁸ The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
⁹ Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
¹⁰ But you, come on again, all of you,
and I shall not find a wise man among you.
¹¹ My days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
¹² They make night into day:
The light, they say, is near to the darkness.
¹³ If I hope for Sheol as my house,
if I make my bed in darkness,
¹⁴ if I say to the pit, You are my father,
and to the worm, My mother, or My sister,
¹⁵ where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
¹⁶ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall we descend together into the dust?