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Job 17:15

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17:15where then34 is my hope?

And my hope,35 who sees it?

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Footnotes

  1. 34 The adverb אֵפוֹ (’efo, “then”) plays an enclitic role here (see Job 4:7).
  2. 35 The repetition of “my hope” in the verse has thrown the versions off, and their translations have led commentators also to change the second one to something like “goodness,” on the assumption that a word cannot be repeated in the same verse. The word actually carries two different senses here. The first would be the basic meaning “hope,” but the second a metonymy of cause, namely, what hope produces, what will be seen.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

where then is my hope?

Who will see my hope?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

where then is my hope—

who can see any hope for me?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

where then is my hope?

Who can see any hope for me?

NLTNew Living Translation

Where then is my hope?

Can anyone find it?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

where then is my hope?

And who will see my hope?

KJV 1900King James Version

And where is now my hope?

As for my hope, who shall see it?