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13 If I hope for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in the darkness,
14 if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or[a] my sister,’
15 where[b] then is my hope?
And who will see my hope?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:14 Or “and”
  2. Job 17:15 Hebrew “and where”
  3. Job 17:15 Literally “my hope who will see it”

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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