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Job 3:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Now I would be at peace in the silent world below

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before I travel to the land of darkness and despair, the place of no return.

You change the way we look, then send us away, wiped out for ever.

Because in only a few years, I will be dead and gone.

I could tell the world below to prepare me a bed.

I know that my Saviour lives, and at the end he will stand on this earth.

Yes, I will see him for myself, and I long for that moment.

and they are successful, without a worry, until the day they die.

Some of us die prosperous, enjoying good health,

But we all end up dead, beneath a blanket of worms.

Just as the heat of summer swallows the snow, the world of the dead swallows those who sin.

Forgotten here on earth, and with their power broken, they taste sweet to worms.

Remember the terrible trembling of those in the world of the dead below the mighty ocean.

Nothing in that land of death and destruction is hidden from God,

Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast?

No evil person can hide in the deepest darkness.

Why do you refuse to forgive? Soon you won't find me, because I'll be dead.

Work hard at whatever you do. You will soon go to the world of the dead, where no one works or thinks or reasons or knows anything.

They were not given a proper burial like the heroes of long ago, who were buried with their swords under their heads and with their shields over their bodies. These were the heroes who made their enemies panic.




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