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Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the graveyard is ready for me.
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the graveyard is ready for me.
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.
Surely there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
“Lay down a pledge for me with you;
who is there who will put up security for me?
who is there who will put up security for me?
Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
therefore you will not let them triumph.
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property —
the eyes of his children will fail.
the eyes of his children will fail.
He that betrayeth friends for a prey -- even the eyes of his children shall fail.
“He has made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom men spit.
and I am one before whom men spit.
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
My eye has grown dim from vexation,
and all my members are like a shadow.
and all my members are like a shadow.
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
But you, come on again, all of you,
and I shall not find a wise man among you.
and I shall not find a wise man among you.
But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
My days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
the desires of my heart.
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.
If I hope for Sheol as my house,
if I make my bed in darkness,
if I make my bed in darkness,
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
Who will see my hope?
And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?