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Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the graveyard is ready for me.
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the graveyard 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 there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
“Lay down a pledge for me with you;
who is there who will put up security for me?
who is there who will put up security for me?
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
therefore you will not let them triumph.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property —
the eyes of his children will fail.
the eyes of his children will fail.
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
“He has made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom men spit.
and I am one before whom men spit.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
My eye has grown dim from vexation,
and all my members are like a shadow.
and all my members are like a shadow.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
But you, come on again, all of you,
and I shall not find a wise man among you.
and I shall 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 broken off,
the desires of my heart.
the desires of my heart.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
If I hope for Sheol as my house,
if I make my bed in darkness,
if I make my bed in darkness,
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
Who will see my hope?
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?