WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.870 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:04.210 Day three hundred and eighteen. 00:00:04.998 --> 00:00:05.898 Then pha. 00:00:05.898 --> 00:00:09.708 The Timon Night replied to Job, will you be patient? 00:00:09.888 --> 00:00:13.488 And let me say a word for who could keep from speaking out. 00:00:14.628 --> 00:00:16.998 In the past, you have encouraged many people. 00:00:17.568 --> 00:00:21.108 You have strengthened those who were weak, your words have 00:00:21.108 --> 00:00:22.668 supported those who were falling. 00:00:23.178 --> 00:00:25.488 You encourage those with shaky knees. 00:00:26.268 --> 00:00:29.643 But now when trouble strikes, You lose heart. 00:00:30.363 --> 00:00:32.253 You are terrified when it touches you. 00:00:33.273 --> 00:00:35.763 Doesn't your reverence for God give you confidence? 00:00:36.423 --> 00:00:39.093 Doesn't your life of integrity give you hope? 00:00:39.783 --> 00:00:41.163 Stop and think. 00:00:41.613 --> 00:00:43.083 Do the innocent die. 00:00:43.623 --> 00:00:45.693 When have the upright been destroyed? 00:00:46.473 --> 00:00:50.433 My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate 00:00:50.463 --> 00:00:52.503 evil will harvest the same. 00:00:53.343 --> 00:00:55.353 A breath from God destroys them. 00:00:55.863 --> 00:00:57.963 They vanish in a blast of his anger. 00:00:58.683 --> 00:01:04.983 The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken. 00:01:05.823 --> 00:01:09.873 The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of 00:01:09.873 --> 00:01:11.493 the lioness will be scattered. 00:01:12.723 --> 00:01:17.193 This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear. 00:01:17.973 --> 00:01:20.193 It came to me in a disturbing vision. 00:01:20.193 --> 00:01:20.763 At night. 00:01:21.093 --> 00:01:26.283 When people are in a deep sleep, fear gripped me and my bones trembled. 00:01:26.943 --> 00:01:30.933 A spirit swept past my face and my hair stood on end. 00:01:31.893 --> 00:01:35.043 The spirit stopped, but I couldn't see it shape. 00:01:35.673 --> 00:01:39.273 There was a form before my eyes in the silence. 00:01:39.273 --> 00:01:43.383 I heard a voice say, can immortal be innocent before God? 00:01:44.133 --> 00:01:46.593 Can anyone be pure before the creator? 00:01:48.063 --> 00:01:51.963 If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his 00:01:51.963 --> 00:01:53.553 messengers with foolishness? 00:01:54.168 --> 00:01:57.408 How much less will he trust people made of clay? 00:01:58.248 --> 00:02:01.638 They are made of dust crushed as easily as a moth. 00:02:02.328 --> 00:02:06.588 They are alive in the morning, but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace. 00:02:07.368 --> 00:02:12.768 Their tent cords are pulled and the tent collapses and they die in ignorance. 00:02:13.978 --> 00:02:19.398 Cry for help, but will anyone answer you, which of the angels will help you? 00:02:20.193 --> 00:02:24.723 Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple. 00:02:25.653 --> 00:02:29.553 I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment, but 00:02:29.553 --> 00:02:31.593 then comes sudden disaster. 00:02:32.283 --> 00:02:34.833 Their children are abandoned far from help. 00:02:35.103 --> 00:02:37.923 They are crushed in court with no one to defend them. 00:02:38.913 --> 00:02:44.313 The hungry devour their harvest even when it is guarded by brambles, the 00:02:44.313 --> 00:02:46.413 thirsty pant after their wealth. 00:02:47.373 --> 00:02:50.703 But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does 00:02:50.703 --> 00:02:52.083 not sprout from the earth. 00:02:52.893 --> 00:02:57.993 People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire. 00:02:59.133 --> 00:03:03.183 If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him. 00:03:03.993 --> 00:03:06.873 He does great things, too marvelous to understand. 00:03:07.503 --> 00:03:09.453 He performs countless miracles. 00:03:10.173 --> 00:03:13.143 He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields. 00:03:13.743 --> 00:03:15.663 He gives prosperity to the poor. 00:03:16.008 --> 00:03:17.598 And protects those who suffer. 00:03:18.408 --> 00:03:23.358 He frustrates the plans of schemers, so the work of their hands will not succeed. 00:03:24.228 --> 00:03:28.638 He traps the wise in their own cleverness, so their cunning schemes are thwarted. 00:03:29.448 --> 00:03:34.548 They find it is dark in the daytime and they grope at noon as if it were night. 00:03:35.358 --> 00:03:39.498 He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong and rescues them 00:03:39.498 --> 00:03:44.598 from the clutches of the powerful, and so at last, the poor have hope. 00:03:45.198 --> 00:03:47.448 And the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut. 00:03:48.918 --> 00:03:51.918 But consider the joy of those corrected by God. 00:03:52.638 --> 00:03:55.968 Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin. 00:03:56.778 --> 00:03:58.008 For though he wounds. 00:03:58.398 --> 00:03:59.568 He also bandages. 00:04:00.108 --> 00:04:05.688 He strikes, but his hands also heal from six disasters. 00:04:05.693 --> 00:04:08.208 He will rescue you even in the seventh. 00:04:08.208 --> 00:04:09.558 He will keep you from evil. 00:04:10.218 --> 00:04:12.588 He will save you from death in time of famine. 00:04:12.993 --> 00:04:16.713 From the power of the sword, in time of war, you'll be safe 00:04:16.713 --> 00:04:18.333 from slander and have no fear. 00:04:18.333 --> 00:04:22.593 When destruction comes, you will laugh at destruction and famine. 00:04:23.133 --> 00:04:25.293 Wild animals will not terrify you. 00:04:26.103 --> 00:04:29.943 You will be at peace with the stones of the field and its wild. 00:04:29.943 --> 00:04:31.623 Animals will be at peace with you. 00:04:32.913 --> 00:04:35.043 You will know that your home is safe. 00:04:35.553 --> 00:04:38.433 When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing. 00:04:39.273 --> 00:04:40.773 You will have many children. 00:04:41.013 --> 00:04:43.863 Your descendants will be as plentiful as grass. 00:04:44.553 --> 00:04:49.143 You will go to the grave at a ripe old age, like a sheaf of grain 00:04:49.383 --> 00:04:51.123 harvested at the proper time. 00:04:52.143 --> 00:04:55.923 We have studied life and found all this to be true. 00:04:56.823 --> 00:05:00.603 Listen to my counsel and apply it to yourself. 00:05:02.343 --> 00:05:04.203 Then job spoke again. 00:05:05.373 --> 00:05:07.203 If my misery could be weighed. 00:05:07.758 --> 00:05:09.738 My troubles be put on the scales. 00:05:10.308 --> 00:05:12.738 They would outweigh all the sands of the sea. 00:05:13.668 --> 00:05:17.718 That is why I spoke Impulsively for the Almighty has struck 00:05:17.723 --> 00:05:19.158 me down with his arrows. 00:05:19.518 --> 00:05:21.618 Their poison infects my spirit. 00:05:22.098 --> 00:05:26.118 God's terrors are lined up against me, don't I? 00:05:26.148 --> 00:05:27.798 Have a right to complain. 00:05:28.578 --> 00:05:33.018 Don't wild donkeys bra when they find no grass and oxen 00:05:33.018 --> 00:05:34.368 bellow when they have new food. 00:05:35.463 --> 00:05:38.073 Don't people complain about unsalted food? 00:05:38.673 --> 00:05:41.553 Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg? 00:05:42.213 --> 00:05:44.463 My appetite disappears when I look at it. 00:05:44.673 --> 00:05:46.593 I gag at the thought of eating it. 00:05:48.213 --> 00:05:52.683 Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant my desire. 00:05:53.553 --> 00:05:54.813 I wish he would crush me. 00:05:55.863 --> 00:05:58.233 I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me. 00:05:59.478 --> 00:06:03.108 At least I can take comfort in this despite the pain. 00:06:03.108 --> 00:06:07.698 I have not denied the words of the holy one, but I don't 00:06:07.698 --> 00:06:09.078 have the strength to endure. 00:06:10.068 --> 00:06:11.508 I have nothing to live for. 00:06:12.918 --> 00:06:15.108 Do I have the strength of a stone? 00:06:15.648 --> 00:06:17.808 Is my body made of bronze? 00:06:18.618 --> 00:06:23.568 No, I am utterly helpless without any chance of success. 00:06:25.638 --> 00:06:28.278 One should be kind to a fainting friend. 00:06:29.193 --> 00:06:32.943 But you accuse me without any fear of the almighty. 00:06:34.023 --> 00:06:34.803 My brothers. 00:06:35.073 --> 00:06:39.453 You have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook that overflows 00:06:39.453 --> 00:06:43.203 its banks in the spring when it is swollen with ice and melting snow. 00:06:44.073 --> 00:06:47.223 But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears. 00:06:47.823 --> 00:06:53.583 The brook vanishes in the heat, the caravans turn aside to be refreshed, but 00:06:53.583 --> 00:06:55.773 there is nothing to drink so they die. 00:06:56.793 --> 00:06:58.263 The caravans from Tema. 00:06:58.263 --> 00:06:59.823 Search for this water. 00:07:00.393 --> 00:07:02.793 The travelers from Shiba hope to find it. 00:07:03.303 --> 00:07:09.363 They count on it, but are disappointed when they arrive, their hopes are dashed. 00:07:10.503 --> 00:07:13.083 You too have given no help. 00:07:13.493 --> 00:07:17.643 You have seen my calamity and you are afraid. 00:07:18.963 --> 00:07:22.893 But why have I ever asked you for a gift? 00:07:23.433 --> 00:07:25.383 Have I begged for anything of yours? 00:07:25.383 --> 00:07:26.133 For myself? 00:07:26.643 --> 00:07:26.673 I. 00:07:26.853 --> 00:07:30.153 Have I asked you to rescue me from my enemies or to 00:07:30.153 --> 00:07:31.923 save me from ruthless people? 00:07:32.943 --> 00:07:35.013 Teach me and I will keep quiet. 00:07:35.463 --> 00:07:37.323 Show me what I have done Wrong. 00:07:38.133 --> 00:07:44.073 Honest words can be painful, but what do your criticisms amount to, do you 00:07:44.073 --> 00:07:48.453 think your words are convincing when you disregard my cry of desperation? 00:07:49.443 --> 00:07:53.253 You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend. 00:07:54.243 --> 00:07:54.693 Look at me. 00:07:55.803 --> 00:07:57.543 Would I lie to your face? 00:07:58.413 --> 00:08:01.833 Stop assuming my guilt for I have done no wrong. 00:08:02.733 --> 00:08:04.053 Do you think I am lying? 00:08:04.683 --> 00:08:08.763 Don't I know the difference between right and wrong is 00:08:08.763 --> 00:08:11.013 not all human life a struggle? 00:08:11.763 --> 00:08:16.443 Our lives are like that of a hired hand, like a worker who longs for the 00:08:16.448 --> 00:08:19.353 shade like a servant waiting to be paid. 00:08:20.073 --> 00:08:23.103 I too have been assigned months of futility. 00:08:23.598 --> 00:08:27.318 Long and weary nights of misery lying in bed. 00:08:27.318 --> 00:08:27.858 I think. 00:08:28.428 --> 00:08:29.718 When will it be morning? 00:08:30.468 --> 00:08:33.768 But the night drags on and I toss, still gone. 00:08:34.758 --> 00:08:37.518 My body is covered with maggots and scabs. 00:08:38.028 --> 00:08:41.208 My skin breaks open oozing with pus. 00:08:42.318 --> 00:08:45.198 My days fly faster than a weaver shuttle. 00:08:45.978 --> 00:08:47.808 They end without hope. 00:08:48.948 --> 00:08:50.148 Oh God, remember that. 00:08:50.153 --> 00:08:51.738 My life is but a breath. 00:08:52.443 --> 00:08:54.633 And I will never again feel happiness. 00:08:55.713 --> 00:08:58.743 You see me now, but not for long. 00:08:59.613 --> 00:09:06.183 You will look for me, but I will be gone just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes. 00:09:06.483 --> 00:09:08.523 Those who die will not come back. 00:09:09.123 --> 00:09:13.053 They are gone forever from their home, never to be seen again. 00:09:14.403 --> 00:09:16.443 I cannot keep from speaking. 00:09:17.238 --> 00:09:20.328 I must express my anguish, my bit. 00:09:20.328 --> 00:09:22.068 Her soul must complain. 00:09:23.238 --> 00:09:27.618 Am I a sea monster or a dragon that you must place me under guard? 00:09:28.308 --> 00:09:33.198 I think my bed will comfort me and sleep will ease my misery. 00:09:34.098 --> 00:09:37.728 But then you shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions. 00:09:38.688 --> 00:09:42.648 I would rather be strangled, rather die than suffer like this. 00:09:43.443 --> 00:09:48.273 I hate my life and don't want to go on living who leave me 00:09:48.273 --> 00:09:50.283 alone for my few remaining days. 00:09:51.753 --> 00:09:56.403 What are people that you should make so much of us that you should 00:09:56.408 --> 00:09:58.863 think of us so often for you? 00:09:58.868 --> 00:10:02.133 Examine us every morning and test us every moment. 00:10:03.363 --> 00:10:09.693 Why won't you leave me alone at least long enough for me to swallow if I have sinned? 00:10:10.308 --> 00:10:11.808 What have I done to you? 00:10:12.258 --> 00:10:14.178 A watcher of all humanity. 00:10:15.198 --> 00:10:16.848 Why make me your target? 00:10:17.508 --> 00:10:18.948 Am I a burden to you? 00:10:19.668 --> 00:10:22.848 Why not just forgive my sin and take away my guilt? 00:10:23.718 --> 00:10:26.358 For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. 00:10:27.078 --> 00:10:28.188 When you look for me. 00:10:28.848 --> 00:10:29.748 I will be gone. 00:10:31.488 --> 00:10:34.098 Then build, add the shoe height, replied to job. 00:10:34.998 --> 00:10:36.948 How long will you go on like this? 00:10:37.503 --> 00:10:39.663 You sound like a blustering wind. 00:10:40.623 --> 00:10:42.693 Does God twist justice? 00:10:43.353 --> 00:10:45.573 Does the almighty twist what is right? 00:10:46.443 --> 00:10:49.143 Your children must have sinned against him, so their 00:10:49.143 --> 00:10:50.853 punishment was well-deserved. 00:10:52.023 --> 00:10:57.213 But if you pray to God and seek the favor of the Almighty, and if you are pure 00:10:57.213 --> 00:11:02.253 and live with integrity, he will surely rise up and restore your happy home. 00:11:03.033 --> 00:11:06.213 And though you started with little, you will end with much. 00:11:07.683 --> 00:11:12.483 Just ask the previous generation, pay attention to the experience 00:11:12.483 --> 00:11:16.623 of our ancestors for we were born, but yesterday and know nothing. 00:11:17.343 --> 00:11:21.273 Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow, but those who 00:11:21.273 --> 00:11:23.343 came before us will teach you. 00:11:23.943 --> 00:11:30.183 They will teach you the wisdom of old can papyrus reads, grow tall without a marsh. 00:11:30.753 --> 00:11:33.543 Can marsh grass flourish without water? 00:11:34.338 --> 00:11:38.238 While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin 00:11:38.238 --> 00:11:40.488 to wither more quickly than grass. 00:11:41.448 --> 00:11:46.848 The same happens to all who forget God, the hopes of the godless evaporate. 00:11:47.448 --> 00:11:49.698 Their confidence hangs by a thread. 00:11:50.418 --> 00:11:52.578 They are leaning on a spider's web. 00:11:53.298 --> 00:11:56.928 They clinging to their home for security, but it won't last. 00:11:57.588 --> 00:12:01.038 They try to hold it tight, but it will not endure. 00:12:02.163 --> 00:12:05.673 The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine. 00:12:05.883 --> 00:12:08.343 Its branches spreading across the garden. 00:12:09.063 --> 00:12:12.423 Its roots grow down through a pile of stones. 00:12:12.903 --> 00:12:18.273 It takes hold on a bed of rocks, but when it is uprooted, it's 00:12:18.273 --> 00:12:19.743 as though it never existed. 00:12:20.643 --> 00:12:25.083 That's the end of its life and others spring up from the earth to replace it. 00:12:26.493 --> 00:12:30.753 But look, God will not reject a person of integrity. 00:12:31.233 --> 00:12:33.423 Nor will he lend a hand to the wicked. 00:12:34.233 --> 00:12:39.603 He will once again fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. 00:12:40.443 --> 00:12:43.863 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame and the home 00:12:43.863 --> 00:12:45.783 of the wicked will be destroyed. 00:12:47.373 --> 00:12:48.723 Then Job spoke again. 00:12:49.623 --> 00:12:54.903 Yes, I know all this is true in principle, but how can a person be 00:12:54.903 --> 00:12:56.823 declared innocent in God's sight? 00:12:57.588 --> 00:13:01.878 If someone wanted to take God to court, would it be possible to answer 00:13:01.878 --> 00:13:04.278 him even once in a thousand times? 00:13:05.118 --> 00:13:10.188 For God is so wise and so mighty, who has ever challenged him successfully 00:13:11.118 --> 00:13:15.378 without warning, he moves the mountains, overturning them in his anger. 00:13:16.128 --> 00:13:19.908 He shakes the earth from its place and its foundations tremble. 00:13:20.718 --> 00:13:25.908 If he commands it, the sun won't rise and the stars won't shine. 00:13:26.748 --> 00:13:31.488 He alone has spread out the heavens and marches on the waves of the sea. 00:13:32.178 --> 00:13:37.308 He made all the stars, the bear and Orion, the ple and the 00:13:37.308 --> 00:13:39.228 constellations of the southern sky. 00:13:39.888 --> 00:13:43.158 He does great things to marvelous to understand. 00:13:43.758 --> 00:13:49.668 He performs countless miracles, yet when he comes near, I 00:13:49.668 --> 00:13:52.638 cannot see him when he moves by. 00:13:52.643 --> 00:13:54.018 I do not see him go. 00:13:54.903 --> 00:13:59.823 If he snatches someone in death who can stop him, who dares 00:13:59.823 --> 00:14:01.443 to ask, what are you doing? 00:14:02.613 --> 00:14:04.683 And God does not restrain his anger. 00:14:05.373 --> 00:14:08.553 Even the monsters, the sea are crushed beneath his feet. 00:14:09.243 --> 00:14:13.923 So who am I that I should try to answer God or even reason with him? 00:14:14.583 --> 00:14:17.133 Even if I were right, I would have no defense. 00:14:17.613 --> 00:14:19.443 I could only plead for mercy. 00:14:20.433 --> 00:14:23.193 And even if I summoned him and he responded. 00:14:23.898 --> 00:14:26.688 I'm not sure he would listen to me for. 00:14:26.688 --> 00:14:31.278 He attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause. 00:14:31.998 --> 00:14:36.978 He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows. 00:14:37.998 --> 00:14:41.268 If it's a question of strength, he's the strong one. 00:14:42.048 --> 00:14:48.528 If it's a matter of justice, who dares to summon him to court, though I am innocent, 00:14:48.888 --> 00:14:51.168 my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. 00:14:51.933 --> 00:14:55.083 Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked. 00:14:56.703 --> 00:15:00.363 I am innocent, but it makes no difference to me. 00:15:00.843 --> 00:15:02.313 I despise my life. 00:15:02.973 --> 00:15:04.083 Innocent or wicked. 00:15:04.083 --> 00:15:05.583 It is all the same to God. 00:15:05.823 --> 00:15:09.453 That's why I say he destroys both the blameless and the wicked. 00:15:10.533 --> 00:15:14.553 When a plague sweeps through, he laughs at the death of the innocent. 00:15:15.273 --> 00:15:18.453 The whole earth is in the hands of the wicked, and God 00:15:18.543 --> 00:15:20.553 blinds the eyes of the judges. 00:15:21.213 --> 00:15:24.063 If he's not the one who does it, who is? 00:15:25.443 --> 00:15:27.843 My life passes more swiftly than a runner. 00:15:28.593 --> 00:15:31.593 It flees away without a glimpse of happiness. 00:15:32.283 --> 00:15:37.833 It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. 00:15:38.273 --> 00:15:44.163 If I decided to forget my complaints to put away my sad face and be cheerful, 00:15:45.033 --> 00:15:47.253 I would still dread all the pain. 00:15:47.973 --> 00:15:50.403 For, I know you will not find me innocent. 00:15:50.523 --> 00:15:51.033 Oh God. 00:15:51.903 --> 00:15:54.603 Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. 00:15:55.563 --> 00:15:57.153 So what's the use of trying? 00:15:58.083 --> 00:16:03.423 Even if I were to wash myself with soap and clean my hands with lie, you 00:16:03.428 --> 00:16:08.403 would plunge me into a muddy ditch and my own filthy clothing would hate me. 00:16:09.693 --> 00:16:15.843 God is not immortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial. 00:16:16.848 --> 00:16:20.448 If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us 00:16:20.448 --> 00:16:26.328 together, the mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer 00:16:26.328 --> 00:16:28.338 live in terror of his punishment. 00:16:29.118 --> 00:16:34.488 Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot do that in my own strength. 00:16:35.778 --> 00:16:37.578 I'm disgusted with my life. 00:16:38.328 --> 00:16:40.008 Let me complain freely. 00:16:40.338 --> 00:16:42.268 My bitter soul must complain. 00:16:43.028 --> 00:16:43.148 I. 00:16:43.413 --> 00:16:46.443 I will say to God, don't simply condemn me. 00:16:47.013 --> 00:16:49.563 Tell me the charge you are bringing against me. 00:16:50.283 --> 00:16:52.503 What do you gain by oppressing me? 00:16:53.253 --> 00:16:54.603 Why do you reject me? 00:16:54.608 --> 00:16:58.953 The work of your own hands while smiling on the schemes of the wicked? 00:17:00.063 --> 00:17:02.313 Are your eyes like those of a human? 00:17:02.913 --> 00:17:09.243 Do you see things only as people see them is your lifetime only as long as hours? 00:17:09.903 --> 00:17:13.413 Is your life so short that you must quickly probe for my 00:17:13.413 --> 00:17:15.213 guilt and search for my sin. 00:17:16.383 --> 00:17:21.573 Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. 00:17:23.013 --> 00:17:25.353 You formed me with your hands. 00:17:25.503 --> 00:17:27.513 You made me you. 00:17:27.633 --> 00:17:29.433 Now you completely destroy me. 00:17:30.483 --> 00:17:32.913 Remember that you made me from dust. 00:17:33.663 --> 00:17:36.333 Will you turn me back to dust so soon? 00:17:37.338 --> 00:17:40.818 You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. 00:17:41.418 --> 00:17:46.518 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. 00:17:47.208 --> 00:17:51.168 You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. 00:17:51.468 --> 00:17:59.418 My life was preserved by your care, yet your real motive, your true intent 00:18:00.318 --> 00:18:05.568 was to watch me and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt. 00:18:07.158 --> 00:18:14.568 If I am guilty, too bad for me, and even if I'm innocent, I can't hold my head high 00:18:15.048 --> 00:18:17.478 because I'm filled with shame and misery. 00:18:18.528 --> 00:18:23.238 And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome 00:18:23.243 --> 00:18:26.718 power against me again and again. 00:18:26.718 --> 00:18:28.248 You witness against me. 00:18:28.788 --> 00:18:32.868 You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me. 00:18:34.068 --> 00:18:37.188 Why then did you deliver me from my mother's womb? 00:18:37.848 --> 00:18:40.188 Why didn't you let me die at birth? 00:18:40.758 --> 00:18:43.068 It would be as though I had never existed. 00:18:43.608 --> 00:18:49.098 Going directly from the womb to the grave, I have only a few days left, 00:18:49.758 --> 00:18:54.348 so leave me alone that I may have a moment of comfort before I leave. 00:18:54.408 --> 00:18:55.638 Never to return. 00:18:55.818 --> 00:19:01.488 For the land of darkness and utter gloom, it is a land as dark as midnight. 00:19:02.298 --> 00:19:08.478 A land of gloom and confusion where even the light is as dark as midnight. 00:19:10.578 --> 00:19:13.428 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:19:13.548 --> 00:19:14.778 Thank you for joining us.