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13 If I [a]look for Sheol as my house;
If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
14 If I have said to [b]corruption, Thou art my father;
To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
15 Where then is my hope?
And as for my hope, who shall see it?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:13 Or, hope, Sheol is my house; I have spread . . . I have said . . . And where now is my hope?
  2. Job 17:14 Or, the pit

13 If the only home I hope for is the grave,(A)
    if I spread out my bed(B) in the realm of darkness,(C)
14 if I say to corruption,(D) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,(E) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope—(F)
    who can see any hope for me?(G)

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