Job Prepares for Death 1 Brenton I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 Brenton Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods. BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 Brenton Who is this? let him join hands with me. BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 Brenton For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them. BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 Brenton He shall promise mischief to his companions: but their eyes have failed for their children. BSB BSB: If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 Brenton But thou hast made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 Brenton For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 Brenton Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 Brenton But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 Brenton Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in you. BSB BSB: But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11 Brenton My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 Brenton I have turned 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 Brenton For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 Brenton I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister. BSB BSB: and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 Brenton Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 Brenton Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb? BSB BSB: Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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