17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
17:1 "My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

17:2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
17:2 Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
17:3 "Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?

17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
17:4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.

17:5 He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
17:5 He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
17:6 "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.

17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
17:7 My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.

17:8 Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
17:8 Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
17:9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
17:10 "But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.

17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
17:11 My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

17:12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
17:12 They change the night into day; 'The light is near,' they say, in the face of darkness.

17:13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
17:13 If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,

17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
17:14 If I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' And to the worm, 'You are my mother and my sister,'

17:15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
17:15 Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?

17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
17:16 Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?"