My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is ready for me.
Surely there are {Hebrew: mockery.}mockers with me,
And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;
Who is there that will strike hands with me?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
He that denounceth his friends for a {Hebrew: portion.}prey,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
But he hath made me a byword of the people;
And they spit in my face.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
And all my members are as a shadow.
Upright men shall be astonished at this,
And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,
And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, come on now again;
{Or, For I find not}And I shall not find a wise man among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
Even the {Hebrew: possessions.}thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day:
The light, say they, is near {Or, because of}unto the darkness.
If I {Or, hope, Sheol is my house; I have spread…I have said…And where now is my hope?}look for Sheol as my house;
If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
If I have said to {Or, the pit}corruption, Thou art my father;
To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
Where then is my hope?
And as for my hope, who shall see it?
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,
When once there is rest in the dust.
Querverweise zu Hiob 17,2 Hiob 17,2
I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor,I who called upon God, and he answered:The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
His soul shall dwell at ease;And his seed shall inherit the land.
And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
Is it good that he should search you out?Or as one {Or, mocketh}deceiveth a man, will ye {Or, mock}deceive him?
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High {Or, That abideth…Almighty; Even I &c.}Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
My friends scoff at me:But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Suffer me, and I also will speak;And after that I have spoken, {Or, thou shall mock}mock on.
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother:I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
But in {Hebrew: my limping.}mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together:The {Or, smiters}abjects gathered themselves together against me, and {Or, those whom I keep not}I knew it not;They did tear me, and ceased not:
{Or, Among}Like the profane mockers in feasts,They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,
and saying, Thou that destroyest the {Or, sanctuary}temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.
In like manner also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
He saved others; {Or, can he not save himself?}himself he cannot save. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him.
He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
And the robbers also that were crucified with him cast upon him the same reproach.