Job

Job 17

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


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

1Or, spirit is spent.

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

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

2Heb. lodge.

*provocation-defiance.

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

3Lay down now, cput me in a surety with thee; who is he that will *strike hands with me?

*strike hands-shake hands when concluding an agreement.

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

4For 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.

5He 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.

6He hath made me also a f*byword of the people; and 3*aforetime I was as a *tabret.

*byword-object of scorn or derision.

3Or, before them.

*aforetime-before, previously.

*tabret-small drum.

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

7Mine eye also is gdim by reason of sorrow, and all 4my members are as a shadow.

4Or, my thoughts.

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

8Upright men shall hbe *astonied at this, and the innocent shall istir up himself against the hypocrite.

*astonied-astonished.

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

9The righteous also shall jhold on his way, and he that hath kclean hands 5shall be stronger and stronger.

5Heb. shall add strength, Is. 40.31. 2Sa. 3.1. Ps. 84.7. 2Co. 4.16.

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

10But 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.

11My days nare past, my opurposes are broken off, even 6the thoughts of my heart.

6Heb. the possessions.

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

12They pchange the night into day: the light is 7short because of darkness.

7Heb. near.

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

13If 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.

14I have 8said to corruption, sThou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

8Heb. cried or called.

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

15And where is now my thope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

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

16They 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.