Job

Job 17 ©

1 Job again appealeth to God from the harsh censures of his friends: 6 whose unmerciful dealing may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. 11 His hope is no longer in life, but in death.

1

MY 1breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, athe graves are ready for me.

a Ps. 88.3,4. 2Ti. 4.6. 1Sa. 20.3.
2

Are there not bmockers with me? and doth not mine eye 2continue in their *provocation?

b ch. 12.4; 13.9; 16.20; 21.3. 1Sa. 1.7.
3

Lay down now, cput me in a surety with thee; who is he that will *strike hands with me?

c ch. 9.33. Pr. 6.1; 17.18; 22.26. Ro. 8.33,34. He. 7.22.
4

For thou hast dhid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

d Mat. 11.25; 13.11. ch. 13.4,5; 21.34; 42.7.
5

He that espeaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

e ch. 32.22. Ps. 12.2,3. Ex. 20.5. 1Ki. 11.12; 21.29.
6

He hath made me also a f*byword of the people; and 3*aforetime I was as a *tabret.

f ch. 30.9. Ps. 44.13,14; 22.6,7; 69.11.
7

Mine eye also is gdim by reason of sorrow, and all 4my members are as a shadow.

g ch. 16.16. Ps. 6.7; 31.9,10.
8

Upright men shall hbe *astonied at this, and the innocent shall istir up himself against the hypocrite.

h Ro. 11.33. 1Ki. 9.8. Is. 52.14.
i Ac. 13.46. ch. 42.7.
9

The righteous also shall jhold on his way, and he that hath kclean hands 5shall be stronger and stronger.

j 1Pe. 1.5. Pr. 4.18. Ps. 84.7,11; 92.12-14. 2Pe. 3.18.
k Ps. 24.4. Ge. 20.5.
10

But as for you all, do ye lreturn, and come now: for I cannot find mone wise man among you.

l ch. 6.29. Je. 7.3. Pr. 25.8-10.
m v.4. ch. 32.9; 27.7. 1Co. 6.5.
11

My days nare past, my opurposes are broken off, even 6the thoughts of my heart.

n ch. 7.6; 9.25; 16.22.
o Pr. 16.9; 19.21.
12

They pchange the night into day: the light is 7short because of darkness.

p De. 28.67. ch. 7.3,4,13; 11.17.
13

If I qwait, the rgrave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

q ch. 8.6; 11.15-17; 5.18-26.
r ch. 30.23; 10.21,22. Ec. 12.5,7. Is. 57.2. Ge. 3.19.
14

I have 8said to corruption, sThou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

s Ps. 49.14. ch. 21.26,32; 24.20; 19.26.
15

And where is now my thope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

t ch. 5.16; 8.6,22; 6.11; 19.10.
16

They shall go down to the ubars of the pit, vwhen our rest together is in the dust.

u ch. 18.13.
v ch. 3.17-19.