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Job 30

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¹ As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And You set me in Your presence forever.

² Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever]. Amen and Amen (so be it).

³ To the Chief Musician. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, So my[1] soul pants [longingly] for You, O God.

⁴ My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?

⁵ My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

⁶ These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

⁷ Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.

⁸ O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear]; Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁹ Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

¹⁰ Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song will be with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

¹¹ I will say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

¹² As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me, While they say continually to me, "Where is your God?"

¹³ Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why have you become restless and disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, The[2] help of my countenance and my God.

¹⁴ Judge and vindicate me, O God; plead my case against an ungodly nation. O rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man!

¹⁵ For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

¹⁶ O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.

¹⁷ Then I will go to the altar of God, To God, my exceeding joy; With the lyre I will praise You, O God, my God!

¹⁸ Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him, The[1] help of my [sad] countenance and my God.

¹⁹ To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us The work You did in their days, In the days of old.

²⁰ You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand; Then you planted and established them (Israel); [It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples, Then You spread them abroad.

²¹ For our fathers did not possess the land [of Canaan] by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them, But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence, Because You favored and delighted in them.

²² You are my King, O God; Command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).

²³ Through You we will gore our enemies [like a bull]; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

²⁴ For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

²⁵ But You have saved us from our enemies, And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.

²⁶ In God we have boasted all the day long, And we will praise and give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

²⁷ But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].

²⁸ You make us turn back from the enemy, And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

²⁹ You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton] And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.

³⁰ You sell Your people cheaply, And have not increased Your wealth by their sale.

³¹ You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

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1	As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And You set me in Your presence forever.
2	Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever]. Amen and Amen (so be it).
3	To the Chief Musician. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, So my[1] soul pants [longingly] for You, O God.
4	My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?
5	My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
6	These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.
7	Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.
8	O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear]; Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
9	Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
10	Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song will be with me, A prayer to the God of my life.
11	I will say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
12	As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me, While they say continually to me, "Where is your God?"
13	Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why have you become restless and disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, The[2] help of my countenance and my God.
14	Judge and vindicate me, O God; plead my case against an ungodly nation. O rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man!
15	For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
16	O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.
17	Then I will go to the altar of God, To God, my exceeding joy; With the lyre I will praise You, O God, my God!
18	Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him, The[1] help of my [sad] countenance and my God.
19	To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us The work You did in their days, In the days of old.
20	You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand; Then you planted and established them (Israel); [It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples, Then You spread them abroad.
21	For our fathers did not possess the land [of Canaan] by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them, But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence, Because You favored and delighted in them.
22	You are my King, O God; Command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).
23	Through You we will gore our enemies [like a bull]; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.
24	For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.
25	But You have saved us from our enemies, And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.
26	In God we have boasted all the day long, And we will praise and give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.
27	But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].
28	You make us turn back from the enemy, And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
29	You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton] And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.
30	You sell Your people cheaply, And have not increased Your wealth by their sale.
31	You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

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