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Job Appeals from Men to God
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
Job Says He Has Become a Byword
“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.
“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.
Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.
And my eye gazes on their provocation.
Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
“Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will be my guarantor?
Who is there that will be my guarantor?
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
Therefore You will not exalt them.
He that betrayeth friends for a prey -- even the eyes of his children shall fail.
“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will languish.
The eyes of his children also will languish.
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
“But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am one at whom men spit.
And I am one at whom men spit.
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.
And all my members are as a shadow.
Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
“The upright will be appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
“But come again all of you now,
For I do not find a wise man among you.
For I do not find a wise man among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
“My days are past, my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.
Even the wishes of my heart.
They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
“They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;
I make my bed in the darkness;
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?
And who regards my hope?