Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place.” They took the message back to the king.
Job 23:17 - New Revised Standard Version If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because I was not cut off before the darkness [of these woes befell me], neither has He covered the thick darkness from my face. American Standard Version (1901) Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face. Common English Bible Still I’m not annihilated by darkness; he has hidden deep darkness from me. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet I have not perished because of the threatening darkness, nor has gloom covered my face. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me: neither hath the mist covered my face. |
Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place.” They took the message back to the king.
“Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for the sword.
They are thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous are taken away from calamity,