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Job 30:14-16
New Catholic Bible
Job 30:14-16
New Catholic Bible
14 They burst forward through a gaping breach
and advance in waves.
15 Terrors surround me on all sides;
my confidence disintegrates,
and my hope of deliverance vanishes like a cloud.
God’s Severity[a]
16 “And now my life has begun to ebb away;
my days are filled with grief and affliction.
Footnotes
- Job 30:16 Little by little Job comes back to his essential distress: the fierce hostility of a God who pursues him relentlessly. His faith survives but in a greatly wounded state.
