“Oh that I might have my request,
    and that God would fulfill my hope,

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Kaph

81 My soul (A)longs for your salvation;
    I (B)hope in your word.

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11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
    And what is my end, that I should be patient?
12 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
13 Have I any help in me,
    when resource is driven from me?

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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 (A)Sheol?
    Shall we (B)descend together (C)into the dust?”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 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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