Job 17:12-16
The Message
10-16 “Maybe you’d all like to start over,
to try it again, the bunch of you.
So far I haven’t come across one scrap
of wisdom in anything you’ve said.
My life’s about over. All my plans are shattered,
all my hopes are snuffed out—
My hope that night would turn into day,
my hope that dawn was about to break.
If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard,
if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin,
If a family reunion means going six feet under,
and the only family that shows up is worms,
Do you call that hope?
Who on earth could find any hope in that?
No. If hope and I are to be buried together,
I suppose you’ll all come to the double funeral!”
Job 17:12-16
New International Version
12 turn night into day;(A)
in the face of the darkness light is near.(B)
13 If the only home I hope for is the grave,(C)
if I spread out my bed(D) in the realm of darkness,(E)
14 if I say to corruption,(F) ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm,(G) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope—(H)
who can see any hope for me?(I)
16 Will it go down to the gates of death?(J)
Will we descend together into the dust?”(K)
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