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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.
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.
“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.
And my eye gazes on their provocation.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
“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?
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
Therefore You will not exalt them.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
“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 that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
“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.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
“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.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
“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.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
“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.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
“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.
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 plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.
Even the wishes of my heart.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts 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.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of 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 wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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’;
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?
And who regards my hope?
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?