where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Parallel translations
- KJV And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- BSB where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- NKJV Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?
- NASB Where then is my hope? And who looks at my hope?
- NLT Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?
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Quick answer
Job asks where his hope can be found and who could even see it. He voices the apparent collapse of all hope.
Overview
With his life ebbing toward death, Job questions whether any hope remains for him to grasp or others to perceive. The despairing question lays bare the depth of his crisis. Yet earlier (Job 16:19) and later (Job 19:25) Job reaches beyond the grave for hope in God, showing that even at its lowest, faith keeps groping toward the Redeemer.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
- Job 4:6Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
- Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
- Job 19:10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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