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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 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.
Surely there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
and my eye dwells 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?
“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?
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 hidden 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 speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will fail.
Even the eyes of his children will 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.
“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.
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 sorrow,
And all my members are like shadows.
And all my members are like shadows.
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 are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
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.
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 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.
My days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
the desires of my heart.
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 hope for Sheol as my house,
if I make my bed in darkness,
if I make my bed in 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,
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 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,’
where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
Who will see my hope?
Where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?
As for my hope, who can see it?