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Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,
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Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
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So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
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“Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,
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The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
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Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
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Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
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And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.
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But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
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Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God
“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
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Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
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“For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
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the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.
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Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
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If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
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where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
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He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
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For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
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But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
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Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.
