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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 Prays for Relief
“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.
“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.
“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
Who is he who will shake hands with me?
Who is he who will shake hands with me?
You have closed their minds to understanding,
but do not let them triumph.
but do not let them triumph.
For You have hidden 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 speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will fail.
Even the eyes of his children will fail.
“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 have become one in whose face men spit.
And I have become one in whose face 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 sorrow,
And all my members are like shadows.
And all my members are like shadows.
The virtuous are horrified when they see me.
The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
The innocent rise up against the ungodly.
Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
The righteous keep moving forward,
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
Yet the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
And he who has clean hands will be 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.
My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
These men say that night is day;
they claim that the darkness is light.
they claim that the darkness is light.
They change the night into day;
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
If I wait for the grave as my house,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
If 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 say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?
Can anyone find it?
Where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?
As for my hope, who can see it?