Job Prepares for Death 1 ULT My spirit is destroyed, my days are extinguished; graves{ are} for me. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 ULT If{ there are} not mockers with me? And on their provocations my eye lingers. BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 ULT Please set down, be surety for me with you. Who{ is} he{ who} will strike himself to my hand? BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 ULT For you have hidden their hearts away from understanding; therefore you will not exalt{ them}. BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 ULT He{ who} denounces friends for a reward, even the eyes of his sons will fail. BSB BSB: If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 ULT But he has made me a saying of the peoples, and I have become a spitting in the face, BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 ULT and my eye is dim from sorrow, and my members{ are} like a shadow, all of them. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 ULT The upright wonder at this, and the innocent rouses himself against the godless. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 ULT And the righteous will hold his way, and the clean of hands will add strength. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 ULT But all of them, may you return, and come now, but I will not find a wise{ person} among you. BSB BSB: But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
11 ULT My days have passed, my plans are broken, the desires of my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 ULT They change night into day. Light is near from the face of darkness. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 ULT If I hope for Sheol{ as} my house,{ if} in the 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 ULT { if} I call to the pit,‘You{ are} my father,’ to the worm,‘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 ULT where then{ would be} my hope? And my hope, who would see it? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 ULT Will they descend to the bars of Sheol? If{ our} rest{ will 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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