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Job 16:22 - 17:9

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For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

Job Seeks Hope

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;
The grave is ready for me.
2
Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.

3
“Establish, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will clap my hand in pledge?
4
For You have hidden their heart from insight,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
5
He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will come to an end.

6
“But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am one at whom men spit.
7
My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.
8
The upright will be appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
9
Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will grow mightier and mightier.