Job Prepares for Death 1 CPDV My spirit will be wasted, my days will be shortened, and only the grave will be left for me. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 CPDV I have not sinned, yet my eye remains in bitterness. BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 CPDV Free me, O Lord, and set me beside you, and let the hand of anyone you wish fight against me. BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 CPDV You have set their heart far from discipline; therefore, they will not be praised. BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 CPDV He promises prey to his companions, but the eyes of his sons will grow faint. BSB BSB: If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 CPDV He has posted me like a proverb to the people, and I am an example in their presence. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 CPDV My eyesight has been clouded by indignation, and my limbs have been reduced, as if to nothing. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 CPDV The just will be astounded over this, and the innocent will be stirred up against the hypocrite. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 CPDV And the just will cling to his way, and clean hands will increase strength. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 CPDV Therefore, be converted, all of you, and approach, for I do not find in you any wisdom. BSB BSB: But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11 CPDV My days have passed away; my thoughts have been scattered, tormenting my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 CPDV They have turned night into day, and I hope for light again after the darkness. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 CPDV If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed. BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 CPDV I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, 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 CPDV Therefore, where is my expectation now, and who is it that considers my patience? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 CPDV Everything of mine will descend into the deepest underworld; do you think that, in that place at least, there will be rest for me? BSB BSB: Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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