Job 16:16-22
English Standard Version
16 My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is (A)deep darkness,
17 although there is no (B)violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, (C)cover not my blood,
and let my (D)cry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my (E)witness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is (F)on high.
20 My friends (G)scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would (H)argue the case of a man with God,
as[a] a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
I shall go the way (I)from which I shall not return.
Footnotes
- Job 16:21 Hebrew and
Job 17:1
English Standard Version
Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?
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Job 17:13-16
English Standard Version
13 If I hope for (A)Sheol as (B)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 (C)Sheol?
Shall we (D)descend together (E)into the dust?”[a]
Footnotes
- Job 17:16 Or Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Is rest to be found together in the dust?
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