Job 17   English Standard Version (ESV) Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope? 17  “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;      the graveyard is ready for me. 2  Surely there are mockers about me,      and my eye dwells on their provocation. 3  “Lay down a pledge for me with you;      who is there who will put up security for me? 4  Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,      therefore you will not let them triumph. 5  He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—      the eyes of his children will fail. 6  “He has made me a byword of the peoples,      and I am one before whom men spit. 7  My eye has grown dim from vexation,      and all my members are like a shadow. 8  The upright are appalled at this,...