Job 17:6-16 - Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You

⁶ And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face. ⁷ And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. ⁸ Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly; ⁹ But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength. ¹⁰ But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart. ¹² They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness. ¹³ If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: ¹⁴ I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! ¹⁵ And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it? ¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust.