10 I said, (A)In the middle[a] of my days
    I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
    for the rest of my years.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:10 Or In the quiet

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us (A)rely not on ourselves (B)but on God (C)who raises the dead.

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24 “O my God,” (A)I say, “take me not away
    in the midst of my days—
(B)you whose years endure
    throughout all generations!”

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18 (A)they loathed any kind of food,
    and they (B)drew near to (C)the gates of death.

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“Remember that my life is a (A)breath;
    my eye will never again see good.

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Hezekiah's Sickness and Recovery

38 (A)In those days Hezekiah became (B)sick and was at the point of death. And (C)Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:1 Or live; also verses 9, 21

11 My (A)days are past; my plans are broken off,
    the desires of my heart.
12 They (B)make night into day:
    ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’[a]
13 If I hope for (C)Sheol as (D)my house,
    if I make my bed in darkness,
14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope?
    Who will see my hope?
16 Will it go down to the bars of (E)Sheol?
    Shall we (F)descend together (G)into the dust?”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  2. Job 17:16 Or Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Is rest to be found together in the dust?

11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
    And what is my end, that I should be patient?

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