If God tears down anything,\par people can’t build it again.\par If God puts a person in prison,\par people can’t free the person.\par
Job 19:10 - Easy To Read Version God hits me from every side\par until I am finished.\par He takes away my hope\par like a tree pulled up by the roots.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: And mine hope hath he removed like a tree. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree. American Standard Version (1901) He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree. Common English Bible tore me down completely so that I’ll die, and uprooted my hope like a tree. Catholic Public Domain Version He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost. And he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. |
If God tears down anything,\par people can’t build it again.\par If God puts a person in prison,\par people can’t free the person.\par
Water flowing over stones\par wears them down.\par Floods wash away the soil on the ground.\par In the same way, God,\par you destroy a person’s hope.\par
My life is passing away.\par My plans are destroyed.\par My hope is gone.\par
But if that is my only hope\par then I have no hope at all.\par If that is my only hope\par then people have found me\par no hope at all.\par
Then Satan went away from the Lord. Satan gave Job painful sores. The painful sores were all over Job’s body from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
That evil person will die\par and even his own mother\par will forget him.\par His sweetheart will be the worms\par eating his body.\par People will not remember him.\par That evil person will be broken\par like a rotten stick!\par
“My strength is gone,\par so I have no hope to go on living.\par I don’t know what will happen to me,\par so I have no reason to be patient.\par
“My days go by faster\par than a weaver’s shuttle. {\cf2\super [13]} \par And my life ends without hope.\par
My life is almost finished,\par like the long shadows\par at the end of the day.\par I am like dry and dying grass.\par