Job Says He Has Become a Proverb
“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,The 1agrave is ready for me.Lit graves arePs 88:3, 42 “aMockers are certainly with me,And my eye 1gazes on their provocation.Lit dwellsJob 12:4; 17:6
3 “Make a pledge afor me with Yourself;Who is there that will 1be my guarantor?Lit strike hands with mePs 119:122; Is 38:144 “For You have 1akept their hearts away from understanding;Therefore You will not exalt them.Lit hiddenJob 12:205 “He who ainforms against friends for a share of the spoils,The beyes of his children also will perish.Lev 19:13, 16Job 11:20
6 “But He has made me a aproverb among the people,And I am 1one at whom people bspit.Lit a spitting to the facesJob 17:2Job 30:107 “My eye has also become ainexpressive because of grief,And all my bbody parts are like a shadow.Job 16:16Job 16:88 “The upright will be appalled at this,And the ainnocent will stir himself up against the godless.Job 22:199 “Nevertheless athe righteous will hold to his way,And bthe one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.Prov 4:18Job 22:30; 31:710 “But come again all of 1you now,For I ado not find a wise man among you.As in some mss and ancient versions; MT themJob 12:211 “My adays are past, my plans are torn apart,The wishes of my heart.Job 7:612 “They make night into day, saying,‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.13 “If I hope for 1aSheol as my home,I 2make my bed in the darkness;I.e., the netherworldLit spread outJob 3:1314 If I call to the agrave, ‘You are my father’;To the bmaggot, ‘my mother and my sister’;Job 7:5; 13:28; 30:30Job 21:26; 25:615 Where then is amy hope?And who looks at my hope?Job 7:616 “1Will it go down with me to Sheol?Shall we together ago down into the dust?”As in LXX; Heb possibly Let my limbs sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all.Job 3:17; 21:33