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Job 17

16 aligned verses; 16 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse YLT Young's Literal Translation BSB Berean Standard Bible
My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves ` are ' for me.
My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
If not -- mockeries `are' with me . And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth .
Surely mockers surround me , and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion .
Place , I pray Thee , my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me ?
Give me , I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor ?
For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding , Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
You have closed their minds to understanding ; therefore You will not exalt them.
For a portion he sheweth friendship , And the eyes of his sons are consumed .
If a man denounces his friends for a price , the eyes of his children will fail .
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples , And a wonder before them I am .
He has made me a byword among the people , a man in whose face they spit .
And dim from sorrow is mine eye , And my members as a shadow all of them .
My eyes have grown dim with grief , and my whole body is but a shadow.
Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up .
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless .
And the righteous layeth hold `on' his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all .
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger .
Return, and come in , I pray you , And I find not among you a wise man.
But come back and try again , all of you . For I will not find a wise man among you .
My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off , The possessions of my heart !
My days have passed ; my plans are broken off even the desires of my heart .
Night for day they appoint , Light `is' near because of darkness.
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house , In darkness I have spread out my couch.
If I look for Sheol as my home , if I spread out my bed in darkness,
To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father .' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm .
and say to corruption , ‘You are my father ,’ and to the worm , ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
And where ` is ' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it ?
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me ?
` To ' the parts of Sheol ye go down , If together on the dust we may rest.
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol ? Will we go down together into the dust ?”

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