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 17,5 Hiob 17,5
Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person;Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.
thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
For I know not to give flattering titles;Else would my Maker soon take me away.
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor:With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips,The tongue that speaketh great things;
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help:In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets;Therefore company not with him that openeth wide his lips.
A man that flattereth his neighborSpreadeth a net for his steps.
For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;