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Job 3:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

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Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.




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