Job 17:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:15 : 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
  • Job 19:10 : 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
  • Job 4:6 : 6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?
  • Job 6:11 : 11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 17:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

    14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

  • 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • Lam 3:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • 11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

  • 7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • Job 7:5-8
    4 verses
    78%

    5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

    6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

    7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

    8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • 15 In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.

  • Job 10:18-21
    4 verses
    74%

    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

    21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

  • 13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

    14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

  • Job 8:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

    14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

  • 8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;

    27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

  • 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • 9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

  • 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • 18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • 21 This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

  • 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • 15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

  • 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

  • 7 For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

  • 20 But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

  • 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • 7 At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

  • 17 Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.

  • Job 16:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

    16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

  • 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

  • 5 For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

  • 19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • 19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.