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Job 17:12-14
Contemporary English Version

12 But all my friends can do
    is offer empty hopes.[a]
13 I could tell the world below
    to prepare me a bed.
14 Then I could greet the grave
    as my father
and say to the worms,
    “Hello, mother and sisters!”

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  1. 17.12 hopes: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 12.
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Job 17:12-14
New International Version

12 turn night into day;(A)
    in the face of the darkness light is near.(B)
13 If the only home I hope for is the grave,(C)
    if I spread out my bed(D) in the realm of darkness,(E)
14 if I say to corruption,(F) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,(G) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

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