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  • Job Prays for Relief

    “My spirit is broken,
    My days are extinguished,
    The grave is ready for me.
  • Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

    “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
    the graveyard is ready for me.
  • Are not mockers with me?
    And does not my eye [a]dwell on their provocation?
  • Surely there are mockers about me,
    and my eye dwells on their provocation.
  • “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
    Who is he who will shake hands with me?
  • “Lay down a pledge for me with you;
    who is there who will put up security for me?
  • For You have hidden their heart from understanding;
    Therefore You will not exalt them.
  • Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
    therefore you will not let them triumph.
  • He who speaks flattery to his friends,
    Even the eyes of his children will fail.
  • He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property —
    the eyes of his children will fail.
  • “But He has made me a byword of the people,
    And I have become one in whose face men spit.
  • “He has made me a byword of the peoples,
    and I am one before whom men spit.
  • My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow,
    And all my members are like shadows.
  • My eye has grown dim from vexation,
    and all my members are like a shadow.
  • Upright men are astonished at this,
    And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
  • The upright are appalled at this,
    and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
  • Yet the righteous will hold to his way,
    And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
  • Yet the righteous holds to his way,
    and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
  • “But please, come back again, [b]all of you,
    For I shall not find one wise man among you.
  • But you, come on again, all of you,
    and I shall not find a wise man among you.
  • My days are past,
    My purposes are broken off,
    Even the [c]thoughts of my heart.
  • My days are past; my plans are broken off,
    the desires of my heart.
  • They change the night into day;
    ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
  • They make night into day:
    ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’a
  • If I wait for the grave as my house,
    If I make my bed in the darkness,
  • If I hope for Sheol as my house,
    if I make my bed in darkness,
  • If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
    And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
  • if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
  • Where then is my hope?
    As for my hope, who can see it?
  • where then is my hope?
    Who will see my hope?
  • Will they go down to the gates of [d]Sheol?
    Shall we have rest together in the dust?”
  • Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
    Shall we descend together into the dust?”b

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