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My spirit is broken,
my days are cut short,
the grave awaits me.
my days are cut short,
the grave awaits me.
Job Appeals from Men to God
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
Surely mockers surround me;
my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
“Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.
Who else will put up security for me?
Who else will put up security for me?
Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
You have closed their minds to understanding;
therefore you will not let them triumph.
therefore you will not let them triumph.
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
If anyone denounces their friends for reward,
the eyes of their children will fail.
the eyes of their children will fail.
He that betrayeth friends for a prey -- even the eyes of his children shall fail.
“God has made me a byword to everyone,
a man in whose face people spit.
a man in whose face people spit.
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
My eyes have grown dim with grief;
my whole frame is but a shadow.
my whole frame is but a shadow.
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
The upright are appalled at this;
the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,
and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
“But come on, all of you, try again!
I will not find a wise man among you.
I will not find a wise man among you.
But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
My days have passed, my plans are shattered.
Yet the desires of my heart
Yet the desires of my heart
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
turn night into day;
in the face of the darkness light is near.
in the face of the darkness light is near.
They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
If the only home I hope for is the grave,
if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
where then is my hope —
who can see any hope for me?
who can see any hope for me?
And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?