13 If I hope for [a](A)Sheol as my home,
I [b]make my bed in the darkness;
14 If I call to the (B)grave, ‘You are my father’;
To the (C)maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’;
15 Where then is (D)my hope?
And who looks at my hope?
16 [c]Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together (E)go down into the dust?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:13 I.e., the netherworld
  2. Job 17:13 Lit spread out
  3. Job 17:16 As in LXX; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all.

13 If the only home I hope for is the grave,(A)
    if I spread out my bed(B) in the realm of darkness,(C)
14 if I say to corruption,(D) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,(E) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope—(F)
    who can see any hope for me?(G)
16 Will it go down to the gates of death?(H)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”(I)

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