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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 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.
I am surrounded by mockers.
I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in 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], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?
You have closed their minds to understanding,
but do not let them triumph.
but do not let them triumph.
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt 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 that betrayeth friends for a prey -- even the eyes of his children shall fail.
“God has made a mockery of me among the people;
they spit in my face.
they spit in my face.
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
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.
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, 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.
Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;
The righteous keep moving forward,
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
“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 as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one 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 purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts 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 change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread 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?
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?
Can anyone find it?
And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?