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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 17 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Job 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/16.htm" title="Job 16">◄</a> Job 17 <a href="../job/18.htm" title="Job 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.1" class="v18_17_1">1</span>The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_1">there is nothing left for me but the grave.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.2" class="v18_17_2">2</span>I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.3" class="v18_17_3">3</span>I am being honest, God. Accept my word.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_3">There is no one else to support what I say.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.4" class="v18_17_4">4</span>You have closed their minds to reason;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_4">don't let them triumph over me now.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.5" class="v18_17_5">5</span>In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_5">and his children suffer for it.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.17.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.6" class="v18_17_6">6</span>And now people use this proverb against me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_6">they come and spit in my face.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.7" class="v18_17_7">7</span>My grief has almost made me blind;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_7">my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.8" class="v18_17_8">8</span>Those who claim to be honest are shocked,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_8">and they all condemn me as godless.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.9" class="v18_17_9">9</span>Those who claim to be respectable</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_9">are more and more convinced they are right.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.10" class="v18_17_10">10</span>But if all of them came and stood before me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_10">I would not find even one of them wise.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.11" class="v18_17_11">11</span>My days have passed; my plans have failed;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_11">my hope is gone.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.12" class="v18_17_12">12</span>But my friends say night is daylight;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_12">they say that light is near,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_12">but I know I remain in darkness.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.13" class="v18_17_13">13</span>My only hope is the world of the dead,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_13">where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.14" class="v18_17_14">14</span>I will call the grave my father,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_14">and the worms that eat me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_14">I will call my mother and my sisters.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.15" class="v18_17_15">15</span>Where is there any hope for me?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_15">Who sees any?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.16" class="v18_17_16">16</span>Hope will not go with me<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.17.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_16">when I go down to the world of the dead.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">someone … suffer for it; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">someone entertains his friends while his children go hungry.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.16: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">with me; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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