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Job Says He Has Become a Byword

¹ "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The ^(F1)(C1)grave is ready for me.

² "^(C1)Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye ^(F1)gazes on their provocation.

³ "Lay down, now, a pledge ^(C1)for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will ^(F1)be my guarantor?

⁴ "For You have ^(F1)(C1)kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.

⁵ "He who ^(C1)informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The ^(C2)eyes of his children also will languish.

⁶ "But He has made me a ^(C1)byword of the people,
And I am ^(F1)one at whom men ^(C2)spit.

⁷ "My eye has also grown ^(C1)dim because of grief,
And all my ^(C2)members are as a shadow.

⁸ "The upright will be appalled at this,
And the ^(C1)innocent will stir up himself against the godless.

⁹ "Nevertheless ^(C1)the righteous will hold to his way,
And ^(C2)he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ "But come again all of ^(F1)you now,
For I ^(C1)do not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ "My ^(C1)days 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 ^(C1)Sheol as my home,
I ^(F1)make my bed in the darkness;

¹⁴ If I call to the ^(C1)pit, 'You are my father';
To the ^(C2)worm, 'my mother and my sister';

¹⁵ Where now is ^(C1)my hope?
And who regards my hope?

¹⁶ "^(F1)Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together ^(C1)go down into the dust?"