Where then is my expectancy? As for my expectancy, who would see it?
Though, He kills me – in Him I expect! But I show my ways to be right before Him.
as water wears away stones, its outpouring 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 She’ol 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’ĕl. See, they say, ‘Our bones are dry, our expectancy has perished, and we ourselves have been cut off!’