Job Prepares for Death 1 UEB My spirit is consumed, and my days are over; the grave is ready for me. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 UEB Surely there are mockers with me; my eye must always see their provocation. BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 UEB Give now a pledge, be a guarantee for me with yourself; who else is there who will help me? BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 UEB For you, God, have kept their hearts from understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them over me. BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 UEB He who denounces his friends for a reward, the eyes of his children will fail. BSB BSB: If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 UEB But he has made me a byword of the people; they spit in my face. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 UEB My eye is also dim because of sorrow; all my body parts are as thin as shadows. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 UEB Upright men will be stunned by this; the innocent man will stir himself up against godless men. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 UEB The righteous man will keep to his way; he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 UEB But as for you all, come on now; I will not find a 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 UEB My days are past; my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 UEB These people, these mockers, change the night into day; light is near to darkness. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 UEB If the only home I hope for is Sheol; and if I have spread my couch in the darkness; BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 UEB and if I have said to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother or my sister,' BSB BSB: and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 UEB where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see any? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 UEB Will hope go down with me to the gates of Sheol when we descend to 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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