Job 23:17 | MHM | STEP | v. 17 : Job wishes that he had died before his troubles began. Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face (Job 23:17 ). He feels it would have been better not to live to see such hard times, but he must face the darkness that has come into his life.

‏ Job 23:17

v. 17: Job wishes that he had died before his troubles began. Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face (Job 23:17 ^a). He feels it would have been better not to live to see such hard times, but he must face the darkness that has come into his life.