Job 17:15
where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 13:15 : 15 Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
- Job 19:10 : 10 He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.
- Job 4:6 : 6 Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
- Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’
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16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
18So I said,“My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD.”
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11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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7But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!
- Job 7:5-84 verses78%
5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
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1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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9(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.
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10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.
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15Yet I wait for you, O LORD! You will respond, O Lord, my God!
- Job 10:18-214 verses74%
18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
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13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
- Job 14:13-142 verses73%
13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
- Job 8:13-142 verses73%
13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,
14whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.
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8For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Job 19:26-272 verses73%
26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
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21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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9“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
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7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
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18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
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21But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
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11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
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15Look at what they are saying to me,“Where are the events in the LORD’s message? Let’s see them happen, please!”
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15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
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7The Inevitability of Death“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
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20But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”
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47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
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7When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and hope based on power has perished.
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17Do not cause me dismay! You are my source of safety in times of trouble.
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15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
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18Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
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3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
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11“I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
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5For you are my hope; O Sovereign LORD, I have trusted in you since I was young.
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19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,
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19as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.