Job 17:15

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And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

"I thought, 'In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.'

So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord."