Job Prepares for Death 1 RV My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 RV Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation. BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 RV Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me? BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 RV For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them . BSB BSB: You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 RV He that denounceth his 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 RV He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 RV Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, 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 RV Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 RV Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. BSB BSB: Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
10 RV But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall 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 RV My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the droughts of my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 RV They change the night into a day: the fight, say they , is near unto the darkness. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 RV If I look for Sheol as mine house; 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 RV If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art 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 RV Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 RV It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when once there is rest 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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