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

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

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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

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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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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Wives and Husbands

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

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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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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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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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and so train the young women 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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