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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 Continues to Defend His Innocence
“My spirit is crushed,
and my life is nearly snuffed out.
The grave is ready to receive me.
“My spirit is crushed,
and my life is nearly snuffed out.
The grave is ready to receive me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
I am surrounded by mockers.
I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
“You must defend my innocence, O God,
since no one else will stand up for me.
since no one else will stand up for me.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
You have closed their minds to understanding,
but do not let them triumph.
but do not let them triumph.
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
They betray their friends for their own advantage,
so let their children faint with hunger.
so let their children faint with hunger.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
“God has made a mockery of me among the people;
they spit in my face.
they spit in my face.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
My eyes are swollen with weeping,
and I am but a shadow of my former self.
and I am but a shadow of my former self.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
The virtuous are horrified when they see me.
The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
The righteous keep moving forward,
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
“As for all of you, come back with a better argument,
though I still won’t find a wise man among you.
though I still won’t find a wise man among you.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
These men say that night is day;
they claim that the darkness is light.
they claim that the darkness is light.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
What if I call the grave my father,
and the maggot my mother or my sister?
and the maggot my mother or my sister?
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?
Can anyone find it?