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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 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.
Surely there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.
And my eye gazes on 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 for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will be my guarantor?
Who is there that will be my guarantor?
Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
therefore you will not let them triumph.
“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
Therefore You will 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 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.
“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.
“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.
My eye has grown dim from vexation,
and all my members are like a shadow.
and all my members are like 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.
The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
“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.
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.
“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 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 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 plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
the desires 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 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 hope for Sheol as my house,
if I make my bed in darkness,
if I make my bed in darkness,
“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;
I make 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,’
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’;