Job 17

⁹ Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger. ¹⁰ “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you. ¹¹ My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart ¹² turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near. ¹³ If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness, ¹⁴ if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,` and to the worm, ‘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 death? Will we descend together into the dust?”