{"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/web/job/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:36:50.781Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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, And the grave is ready for me."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"|Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 17 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 17](https://primebible.com/web/job/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/17 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}