When You Cannot See Hope, Where Are You?
- より子 逆瀬川
- Apr 30
- 1 min read
Job Chapter 17
Job speaks.
“My spirit is broken;
my days are finished.”
“The grave alone awaits me.”
Job is looking at the end.
Hope is not spoken.
There is a future.
There is restoration.
Yet those words are not in sight.
When hope cannot be seen,
a person cannot move forward.
Where do we go?
What do we wait for?
Those questions
fall into silence.
Job sees only the end.
“The grave alone awaits me,” he says.
Yet he does not stop speaking.
Without seeing hope,
he continues to speak
toward God.
When there is no hope,
what makes a person speak?
When you cannot see hope,
where are you?
Do you remain
inside the end?
Or do you stand before God,
even when hope is not seen?
Job was looking at the end.
Yet he was still speaking.
There is no hope.
No future in sight.
Only the grave ahead.
What makes a person speak?
Still,
he did not stop.
What is it
that keeps Job speaking?
God was still silent.
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