CHAP. XVII.
Job's hope in God: he expects
rest in death.
1 My spirit shall be wasted,
my days shall be shortened,
and only the grave remaineth
for me.
2 I have note not sinned,
and my eye abideth in bitterness.
3 Deliver me O Lord, and
set me beside thee, and let any
man's hand fight against me.
4 Thou hast set their heart
far from understanding, therefore
they shall not be exalted.
5 He promiseth a prey to
his companions, and the eyes
of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me as it
were a by-word of the people,
and I am an example before
them.
7 My eye is dim through
-- --
indignation, and my limbs are
brought as it were to nothing.
8 The just shall be astonished
at this, and the innocent
shall be raised up against the
hypocrite.
9 And the just man shall
hold on his way, and he
that hath clean hands shall be
stronger and stronger.
10 Wherefore be you all
converted, and come, and I
shall not find among you any
wise man.
11 My days have passed
away, my thoughts are dissipated,
tormenting my heart:
12 They have turned night
into day, and after darkness
I hope for light again.
13 If I wait note hell is
my house, and I have made
my bed in darkness.
14 I have said to rottenness:
Thou art my father, to
worms, you are my mother,
and my sister.
15 Where is now then my
expectation, and who considereth
my patience?
16 All that I have shall go
down into the note deepest pit:
thinkest thou that there at
least I shall have rest?
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
