that God would be willing to crush(A) me,
    to let loose his hand and cut off my life!(B)

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Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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That it would please God to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and (A)cut me off!

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17 My spirit(A) is broken,
    my days are cut short,(B)
    the grave awaits me.(C)

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17 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

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Job Prays for Relief

17 “My spirit is broken,
My days are extinguished,
(A)The grave is ready for me.

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For those who are evil will be destroyed,(A)
    but those who hope(B) in the Lord will inherit the land.(C)

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For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

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For evildoers shall be [a]cut off;
But those who wait on the Lord,
They shall (A)inherit the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:9 destroyed

I am set apart with the dead,
    like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
    who are cut off(A) from your care.

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Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

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[a]Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:5 Lit. Free

12 Like a shepherd’s tent(A) my house
    has been pulled down(B) and taken from me.
Like a weaver I have rolled(C) up my life,
    and he has cut me off from the loom;(D)
    day and night(E) you made an end of me.

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12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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12 (A)My life span is gone,
Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have cut off my life like a weaver.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.

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