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Job 17 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Job Says He Has Become a Proverb

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“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,

The [fn]grave is ready for me.

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“Mockers are certainly with me,

And my eye [fn]gazes on their provocation.

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“Make a pledge for me with Yourself;

Who is there that will [fn]be my guarantor?

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“For You have [fn]kept their hearts away from understanding;

Therefore You will not exalt them.

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

The eyes of his children also will perish.

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“But He has made me a proverb among the people,

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

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“My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief,

And all my body parts are like a shadow.

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“The upright will be appalled at this,

And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

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“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,

And the one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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“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,

The wishes of my heart.

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“They make night into day, saying,

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

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“If I hope for [fn]Sheol as my home,

I [fn]make my bed in the darkness;

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

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

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Where then is my hope?

And who looks at my hope?

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

Shall we together go down into the dust?”

See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit graves are
Lit dwells
Lit strike hands with me
Lit hidden
Lit a spitting to the faces
As in some mss and ancient versions; MT them
I.e., the netherworld
Lit spread out
As in LXX; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all.
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