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13 [a]If my only hope is dwelling in Sheol,
    and spreading my couch in darkness,
14 If I am to say to the pit, “You are my father,”
    and to the worm “my mother,” “my sister,”
15 Where then is my hope,
    my happiness, who can see it?

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Footnotes

  1. 17:13–16 Job elaborates another of the vivid descriptions of “life” in Sheol; cf. 3:13–23; 10:21–22.

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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