'Hope' in the Bible
“Is not your fear of God your confidence,And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?
“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,And are spent without hope.
“So are the paths of all who forget God;And the hope of the godless will perish,
“Then you would trust [with confidence], because there is hope;You would look around you and rest securely.
“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,And they will not escape [the justice of God];And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”
“Even though He kills me;I will hope in Him.Nevertheless, I will argue my ways to His face.
“For there is hope for a tree,If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, [but there is no such hope for man].
Water wears away the stones,Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.
Where now is my hope?And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?
“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?Shall we go down together in the dust?”
“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],When God takes his life?
“If I have put my trust and confidence in gold,Or have declared fine gold my hope and assurance,
“Behold, his [assailant’s] hope and expectation [of defeating Leviathan] is false;Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him?
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