{"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/erv/job/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T21:56:26.242Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":17,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall not find a wise man among you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the droughts of my heart."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when once there is rest in the dust."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 17 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 17](https://primebible.com/erv/job/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/17 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}