{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:00:09.560Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":17,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Lay down now a pledge, be thou surety for me with  thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 17 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 17](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/17 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}