Job Prepares for Death 1 DRA My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 DRA I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness. BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 DRA Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man’s hand fight against me. BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 DRA Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted. BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 DRA He promiseth a prey to his companions, and 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 DRA He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 DRA My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 DRA The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 DRA And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath 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 DRA Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man. BSB BSB: But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11 DRA My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 DRA They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 DRA If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 DRA If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, 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 DRA Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 DRA All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest? BSB BSB: Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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