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Job Appeals from Men to God
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are 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.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike 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 hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou 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 speaketh flattery to his friends, 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.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
“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.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, 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 astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be 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 as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of 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, the grave is mine house: I have made 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 have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art 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 now my hope? as for 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?