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Job 17:15

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

KJV

Ubi est ergo nunc præstolatio mea ? et patientiam meam quis considerat ?

Vulgate

ποῦ οὖν μου ἔτι ἐστὶν ἡ ἐλπίς; ἢ τὰ ἀγαθά μου ὄψομαι;

LXX

Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

ASV

וְ֭/אַיֵּה אֵפ֣וֹ תִקְוָתִ֑/י וְ֝/תִקְוָתִ֗/י מִ֣י יְשׁוּרֶֽ/נָּה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵפ֔וֹא
'pv'
adverb · 15×
אַיֵּ֖ה
'yh
pronoun · 47×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
נּוּ
nv
verb · 16×
תִּקְוָ֑ה
tqvh
noun · 34×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 4:6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
  • Job 6:11 — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
  • Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  • Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
  • Job 19:10 — He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
  • Lam 3:18 — And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: