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

⁶ "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. ⁷ My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. ⁸ Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. ⁹ Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. ¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. ¹² They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. ¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, ¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' ¹⁵ where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? ¹⁶ Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"