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13 “If my hope were that my house is the afterlife[a] itself,
    if I were to make my bed in darkness,
14 if I call out to the Pit,[b] ‘You’re my father!’
    or say to the worm,[c] ‘My mother!’ or ‘My sister!’
15 where would my hope be?

“And speaking of my hope, who would notice it?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:13 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the realm of the afterlife
  2. Job 17:14 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
  3. Job 17:14 I.e. an agent of punishment in the afterlife