Job 17 (Good News Translation)
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The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.
2
I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.
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I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.
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You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.
5
In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it. a
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And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.
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My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
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Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless.
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Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.
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But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise.
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My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.
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But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness.
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My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.
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I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.
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Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?
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Hope will not go with me b when I go down to the world of the dead.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. (The Good News Translation - The Holy Bible Online)
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