Job 17:15

The Scriptures 1998

Where then is my expectancy? As for my expectancy, who would see it?

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Though, He does slay me – I wait! But I show my ways to be right before Him.

as water wears away stones, its out-pouring washes away the soil of the earth – so You have destroyed the expectancy of man.

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; and uproots my expectancy like a tree.

Is not your reverence your trust, the integrity of ways your expectancy?

What strength do I have, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.

I said, “Am I to go into the gates of the grave in the prime of my life? Shall I be deprived of the rest of my years?”

And I said, “My strength and my expectancy Have perished from יהוה.”

And He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Yisra’ĕ