Job 17:10-16

10But as for all of you, come back again, Even though I do not find a wise man among you.

11My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart; The wishes of my heart [are broken].

12These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day; ‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

13But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home, If I make my bed in the darkness,

14If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’; And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

15Where now is my hope? And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

16Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Shall we go down together in the dust?”