--- title: Job 17 — the Tanakh in Hebrew, Aramaic and English, with trees description: Job chapter 17 of the Tanakh (Ketuvim — the Writings) in Hebrew, Aramaic (the Targum) and English (JPS 1917), every verse with its syntax tree and pragmatics. It begins: My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / chapter 17 # Job 17 16 verses, each with its tree and pragmatics: Hebrew, Aramaic (the Targum) and English (JPS 1917), the English sentence by sentence. - [17:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.1/) — רוּחִי חֻבָּלָה יָמַי נִזְעָכוּ קְבָרִים לִֽי׃ — My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. - [17:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.2/) — אִם־לֹא הֲתֻלִים עִמָּדִי וּבְהַמְּרוֹתָם תָּלַן עֵינִֽי׃ — Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation. - [17:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.3/) — שִֽׂימָה־נָּא עָרְבֵנִי עִמָּךְ מִֽי הוּא לְיָדִי יִתָּקֵֽעַ׃ — Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me? - [17:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.4/) — כִּֽי־לִבָּם צָפַנְתָּ מִּשָּׂכֶלעַל־כֵּן לֹא תְרֹמֵֽם׃ — For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them. - [17:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.5/) — לְחֵלֶק יַגִּיד רֵעִים וְעֵינֵי בָנָיו תִּכְלֶֽנָה׃ — He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail. - [17:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.6/) — וְֽהִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁל עַמִּים וְתֹפֶת לְפָנִים אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃ — He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit. - [17:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.7/) — וַתֵּכַהּ מִכַּעַשׂ עֵינִי וִֽיצֻרַי כַּצֵּל כֻּלָּֽם׃ — Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow. - [17:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.8/) — יָשֹׁמּוּ יְשָׁרִים עַל־זֹאת וְנָקִי עַל־חָנֵף יִתְעֹרָֽר׃ — Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless. - [17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.9/) — וְיֹאחֵז צַדִּיק דַּרְכּוֹ וּֽטֳהָר־יָדַיִם יֹסִיף אֹֽמֶץ׃ — Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger. - [17:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.10/) — וְֽאוּלָם כֻּלָּם תָּשֻׁבוּ וּבֹאוּ נָא וְלֹֽא־אֶמְצָא בָכֶם חָכָֽם׃ — But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you. - [17:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.11/) — יָמַי עָבְרוּ זִמֹּתַי נִתְּקוּ מוֹרָשֵׁי לְבָבִֽי׃ — My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. - [17:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.12/) — לַיְלָה לְיוֹם יָשִׂימוּ אוֹר קָרוֹב מִפְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ — They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness. - [17:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.13/) — אִם־אֲקַוֶּה שְׁאוֹל בֵּיתִי בַּחֹשֶׁךְ רִפַּדְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃ — If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness; - [17:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.14/) — לַשַּׁחַת קָרָאתִי אָבִי אָתָּה אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָֽרִמָּֽה׃ — If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister'; - [17:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.15/) — וְאַיֵּה אֵפוֹ תִקְוָתִי וְתִקְוָתִי מִי יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃ — Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? - [17:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.16/) — בַּדֵּי שְׁאֹל תֵּרַדְנָה אִם־יַחַד עַל־עָפָר נָֽחַת׃ס — They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust. - ← previous: [Job 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/16/) - next →: [Job 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/18/) - ↑ back to [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/)