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Job 17 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Job Seeks Hope

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:1 -

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;

The [fn]grave is ready for me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:2 -

“Surely mockers are with me,

And my eye [fn]gazes on their provocation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:3 -

“Establish, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;

Who is there that will clap my hand in pledge?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:4 -

“For You have hidden their heart from insight,

Therefore You will not exalt them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:5 -

“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,

The eyes of his children also will come to an end.

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“But He has made me a byword of the people,

And I am [fn]one at whom men spit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:7 -

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,

And all my members are as a shadow.

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“The upright will be appalled at this,

And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.

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“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,

And he who has clean hands will grow mightier and mightier.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:10 -

“But come again all of [fn]you now,

For I do not find a wise man among you.

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“My days are past; my plans are torn apart,

Even the wishes of my heart.

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“They make night into day, saying,

‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 -

“If I hope for Sheol as my home,

I [fn]make my bed in the darkness;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:14 -

If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;

To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:15 -

Where now is my hope?

And who beholds my hope?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16 -

[fn]Will it go down with me to Sheol?

Shall we together go down into the dust?”

LSB Footnotes
Lit graves
Lit graves
Lit graves
Lit lodges
Lit lodges
Lit lodges
Lit a spitting to the faces
Lit a spitting to the faces
Lit a spitting to the faces
As in some ancient mss and versions; M.T. them
As in some ancient mss and versions; M.T. them
As in some ancient mss and versions; M.T. them
Lit spread out
Lit spread out
Lit spread out
As in Gr; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all
As in Gr; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all
As in Gr; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all
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