Job
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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Job 17 [Commentary]
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"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
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"Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
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"Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
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"For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.
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"He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
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"But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
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"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
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"The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
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"Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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"But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
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"My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.
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"They make night into day, saying, `The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
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"If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
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If I call to the pit, `You are my father'; To the worm, `my mother and my sister';
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Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?
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"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
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Job 18 [Commentary]
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Then Bildad the Shuhite responded, |
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"How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding and then we can talk.
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"Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?
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"O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be abandoned, Or the rock to be moved from its place?
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"Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light.
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"The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
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"His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own scheme brings him down.
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"For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.
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"A snare seizes him by the heel, And a trap snaps shut on him.
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"A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path.
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"All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step.
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"His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.
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"His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs.
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"He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.
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"There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
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"His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above.
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"Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.
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"He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.
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"He has no offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
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"Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror.
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"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."
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Job 19 [Commentary]
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Then Job responded, |
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"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
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"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
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"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.
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"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
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Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
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"Behold, I cry, `Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
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"He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
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"He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
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"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
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"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.
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"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
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"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
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"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
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"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.
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"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
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"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.
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"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.
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"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
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"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.
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"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
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"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
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"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
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Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
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"If you say, `How shall we persecute him?' And `What pretext for a case against him can we find?'
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"Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."
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