Job Prepares for Death 1 AKJV My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 AKJV Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation? BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 AKJV Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me? BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 AKJV For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them. BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 AKJV He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. BSB BSB: If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 AKJV He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 AKJV My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 AKJV Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 AKJV The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 AKJV But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. BSB BSB: But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11 AKJV My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 AKJV They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 AKJV If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 AKJV I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister. BSB BSB: and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 AKJV And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 AKJV They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. BSB BSB: Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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