## Job Seeks Hope 

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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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"Establish, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will clap my hand _in pledge_? 

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For You have hidden their heart from insight, 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 come to an end. 

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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 mightier and mightier. 

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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 hope 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 beholds my hope? 

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Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"