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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 Prays for Relief
“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?
Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
Who is he who will shake hands with me?
Who is he who will shake hands with me?
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
For You have hidden 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 speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will fail.
Even the eyes of his children will fail.
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 have become one in whose face men spit.
And I have become one in whose face 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 sorrow,
And all my members are like shadows.
And all my members are like shadows.
Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
Yet the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
They change the night into day;
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
If I wait for the grave as my house,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
If 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 say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?
As for my hope, who can see it?