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Job Says He Has Become a Byword
1 “My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
2 “AJob 12:4; 17:6Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye 1Lit lodgesgazes on their provocation.
3 “Lay down, now, a pledge APs 119:122; Is 38:14for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will 1Lit strike hands with mebe my guarantor?
Therefore You will not exalt them.
The BJob 11:20eyes of his children also will languish.
6 “But He has made me a AJob 17:2byword of the people,
And I am 1Lit a spitting to the facesone at whom men BJob 30:10spit.
7 “My eye has also grown AJob 16:16dim because of grief,
And all my BJob 16:8members are as a shadow.
8 “The upright will be appalled at this,
And the AJob 22:19innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
9 “Nevertheless AProv 4:18the righteous will hold to his way,
And BJob 22:30; 31:7he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 “But come again all of 1With some ancient mss and versions; M.T. themyou now,
For I AJob 12:2do not find a wise man among you.
11 “My AJob 7:6days are past, my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.
12 “They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
13 “If I look for AJob 3:13Sheol as my home,
I 1Lit spread outmake my bed in the darkness;
14 If I call to the AJob 7:5; 13:28; 30:30pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the BJob 21:26; 25:6worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
15 Where now is AJob 7:6my hope?
And who regards my hope?
16 “1So the Gr; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for allWill it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together AJob 3:17; 21:33go down into the dust?”
117:1 Lit graves
117:2 Lit lodges
117:3 Lit strike hands with me
117:4 Lit hidden
A17:5 Lev 19:13, 16
117:6 Lit a spitting to the faces
117:10 With some ancient mss and versions; M.T. them
117:13 Lit spread out
117:16 So the Gr; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all