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

⁶ He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.
⁷ My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.
⁸ The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent are roused against the godless.
⁹ Yet the righteous person will hold to his way,
and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.
¹⁰ But come back and try again, all of you.
I will not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ My days have slipped by;
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.
¹² They turned night into day
and made light seem near in the face of darkness.
¹³ If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,
¹⁴ and say to corruption: You are my father,
and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,
¹⁵ where then is my hope?
Who can see any hope for me?
¹⁶ Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,
or will we descend together to the dust?