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 17,3 Hiob 17,3
There is no umpire betwixt us,That might lay his hand upon us both.
So shall thy poverty come as a {Or, rover}robber,And thy want as {Hebrew: a man with a shield.}an armed man.
I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then {Hebrew: I shall have sinned against thee for ever.}let me bear the blame for ever:
He that is surety for a stranger {Hebrew: shall be sore broken.}shall smart for it;But he that hateth {Hebrew: those that strike hands.}suretyship is secure.
For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.
A man void of {Hebrew: heart.}understanding striketh hands,And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.
He that is surety for a stranger {Hebrew: shall be sore broken.}shall smart for it;But he that hateth {Hebrew: those that strike hands.}suretyship is secure.
Be thou not one of them that strike hands,Or of them that are sureties for debts.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;And {Or, take a pledge of him}hold him in pledge that is surety for {Another reading is, a foreign woman.}foreigners.
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.