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Job’s Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz

And are not his[fn] days like the days of a laborer?
2 the shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.
3 [fn] months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
4 [fn] ‘When shall I rise?’ But[fn] the night is long,
and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.
5 with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then[fn] it gives way again.
6  and they come to an end[fn]
7 is a breath; my eye will not return to see good.
8 the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but[fn][fn]
9  so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up.
10  and his place does not recognize him again.
11 [fn] I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit’s anguish;
I will complain in my inner self’s[fn] bitterness.
12 the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
13  and my couch[fn] will ease my complaint,’
14 [fn] you terrify me with dreams,[fn] and with visions you terrify[fn] me.
15 [fn] my inner self[fn] will choose[fn] strangling— death more than my[fn]
16 my life; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days are a breath.
17 is a human being that you make him great and that[fn]
18 [fn] you visit him[fn] you test him[fn]
19 [fn] will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow[fn] my spit?
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself,
so that[fn] I have become a burden to myself?[fn]
21  and take away my guilt?
For now I shall lie in the dust,
and you will seek me, but[fn][fn]

?:? Or a collective singular, “their”

?:? Literally “I am allotted to me”

?:? Hebrew “and I say”

?:? Hebrew “And”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “with nothing hope”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “there is not me,” or “I am not”

?:? Or “I on my part”

?:? Or “soul’s”

?:? Or “bed”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Or “the dreams”

?:? Or “dishearten,” or “frighten”

?:? Or “And”

?:? Or “soul”

?:? Or “I will choose”

?:? Literally “bones”

?:? Literally “you set on him your heart”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “for mornings,” or “at mornings”

?:? Literally “for moments,” or “at moments”

?:? Literally “Like what”

?:? Or “my swallowing”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Some translations translate as “you” (e.g., ESV, NRSV, NIV, NET)

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “there is not me,” or “I am not”

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