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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.
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.
I am surrounded by mockers.
I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.
And my eye gazes on their provocation.
“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.
“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?
You have closed their minds to understanding,
but do not let them triumph.
but do not let them triumph.
“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
Therefore You will not exalt them.
They betray their friends for their own advantage,
so let their children faint with hunger.
so let their children faint with hunger.
“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.
“God has made a mockery of me among the people;
they spit in my face.
they spit in my face.
“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.
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.
“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.
The virtuous are horrified when they see me.
The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
“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.
The righteous keep moving forward,
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
“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.
“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.
“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.
My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
“My days are past, my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.
Even the wishes of my heart.
These men say that night is day;
they claim that the darkness is light.
they claim that the darkness is light.
“They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;
I make my bed in the darkness;
What if I call the grave my father,
and the maggot my mother or my sister?
and the maggot my mother or my sister?
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’;