Job Prepares for Death 1 DBY My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 DBY Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation? BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 DBY Lay down now a pledge , be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me? BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 DBY For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them . BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 DBY He that betrayeth friends for a prey — 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 DBY And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 DBY And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, 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 DBY Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly; BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 DBY But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 DBY But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not 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 DBY My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 DBY They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 DBY If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 DBY I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, 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 DBY And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 DBY It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together 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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