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crowds,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_2">making fun of me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.3" class="v18_17_3">3</span>If you, <span class="nd">Lord</span>, don't help,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_3">who will pay the price</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_3">for my release?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.4" class="v18_17_4">4</span>My friends won't really listen,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_4">all because of you,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_4">and so you must be the one</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_4">to prove them wrong.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.5" class="v18_17_5">5</span>They have condemned me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_5">just to benefit themselves;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_5">now blind their children.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.6" class="v18_17_6">6</span>You, God, are the reason</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_6">I am insulted and spit on.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.7" class="v18_17_7">7</span>I am almost blind with grief;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_7">my body is a mere shadow.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.8" class="v18_17_8">8</span>People who are truly good</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_8">would feel so alarmed,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_8">that they would become angry</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_8">with my worthless friends.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.9" class="v18_17_9">9</span>They would do the right thing</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_9">and because they did,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_9">they would grow stronger.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.17.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.10" class="v18_17_10">10</span>But none of my friends</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_10">show any sense.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.11" class="v18_17_11">11</span>My life is drawing to an end;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_11">hope has disappeared.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.12" class="v18_17_12">12</span>But all my friends can do</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_12">is offer empty hopes.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.17.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.13" class="v18_17_13">13</span>I could tell the world below</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_13">to prepare me a bed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.14" class="v18_17_14">14</span>Then I could greet the grave</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_14">as my father</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_14">and say to the worms,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_14">“Hello, mother and sisters!”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.15" class="v18_17_15">15</span>But what kind of hope is that?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_17_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.17.16" class="v18_17_16">16</span>Will it keep me company</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_17_16">in the world of the dead?</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">stronger: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verses 8,9.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.12 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">hopes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 12.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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