Job 17

Job's hope in God: he expects rest in death.

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[1]⁠

My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.

[2]⁠

I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

[3]⁠

Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

[4]⁠

Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.

[5]⁠

He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.

[2] "Not sinned": That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me with.

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[6]⁠

He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

[7]⁠

My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

[8]⁠

The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.

[9]⁠

And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

[10]⁠

Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.

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[11]⁠

My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.

[12]⁠

They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.

[13]⁠

If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

[14]⁠

If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

[15]⁠

Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

[13] "Hell": Sheol. The region of the dead.

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[16]⁠

All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

[16] "Deepest pit": Literally, hell.

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