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14 if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or[a] my sister,’
15 where[b] then is my hope?
And who will see my hope?[c]
16 Will they go down to the bars of Sheol?
Or shall we descend together into the dust?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:14 Or “and”
  2. Job 17:15 Hebrew “and where”
  3. Job 17:15 Literally “my hope who will see it”

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

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