Job Prepares for Death 1 WBS My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. BSB BSB: “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 WBS Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?BSB BSB: Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 WBS Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? BSB BSB: Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 WBS 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 WBS He that speaketh flattery to his friends, 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 WBS He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret. BSB BSB: He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 WBS My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade. BSB BSB: My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 WBS Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. BSB BSB: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 WBS The righteous also 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 WBS But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot 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 WBS My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. BSB BSB: My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
12 WBS They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. BSB BSB: They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
13 WBS If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. BSB BSB: If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 WBS 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 WBS And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it? BSB BSB: where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16 WBS They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is 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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