Job 17:15
“And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?”
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?”
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”
“What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?”
“He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.”