Bible in Basic English
Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
— Job 17:15-1964, Bible in Basic English
They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?