Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope

“Has not man (A)a hard service on earth,
    and are not his (B)days like the days of a hired hand?

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“Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)

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My days are (A)swifter than (B)a weaver's shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.

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“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,(A)
    and they come to an end without hope.(B)

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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

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14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
    (A)for you do not know what a day may bring.

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27 Do not boast(A) about tomorrow,
    for you do not know what a day may bring.(B)

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For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The years of our life are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span[a] is but toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.
11 Who considers the power of your anger,
    and your wrath according to the fear of you?

12 (A)So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:10 Or pride

All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.(A)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,(B)
    or eighty,(C) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(D)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(E)
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
    Your wrath(F) is as great as the fear that is your due.(G)
12 Teach us to number our days,(H)
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.(I)

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15 (A)Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 (B)making the best use of the time, because (C)the days are evil.

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15 Be very careful, then, how you live(A)—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity,(B) because the days are evil.(C)

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10 For (A)we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, (B)so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

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10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us(A) for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

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Wives and Husbands

22 (A)Wives, (B)submit to your own husbands, (C)as to the Lord.

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22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands(A) as you do to the Lord.(B)

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25 (A)Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and (B)gave himself up for her,

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25 Husbands, love your wives,(A) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her(B)

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Children and Parents

(A)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (B)“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.(A) “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—

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Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, (A)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Fathers,[a] do not exasperate your children;(A) instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:4 Or Parents

and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

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Then they can urge the younger women(A) to love their husbands and children,

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25 (A)not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and (B)all the more as you see (C)the Day drawing near.

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25 not giving up meeting together,(A) as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another(B)—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.(C)

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