Chapter 17:
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Job 17
17:2
[Are there] not
a mockers with me? and
doth not mine eye continue in
b their
provocation?
(
a) Instead of comfort, being now at death's
door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him.
17:3 c Lay
down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that]
d
will strike hands with me?
(
c) He reasons with God as a man beside himself,
so that his cause might be brought to light.
(
d) And answers for you?
17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from
e
understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
(
e) That these my afflictions are your just
judgments, though man does not know the reason.
17:5 f He
that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall
fail.
(
f) He who flatters a man, and only judges him
happy in his prosperity, will not himself only but in his posterity be
punished.
17:6 He hath made me also a
g
byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
(
g) God has made all the world speak of me,
because of my afflictions.
17:8 Upright [men] shall be
astonied at
i this, and the innocent
shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
(
i) That is, when they see the godly punished:
but in the end they will come to understanding and know what will be the
reward of the hypocrite.
17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his
k
way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
(
k) That is, will not be discouraged, considering
that the godly are punished as well as the wicked.
17:10 But as for
l
you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among
you.
(
l) Job speaks to the three who came to comfort
him.
17:12 They change the
m
night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
(
m) That is, have brought me sorrow instead of
comfort.
17:13 If I wait,
n
the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
(
n) Though I should hope to come from adversity
to prosperity, as your discourse pretends.
17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my
o
father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
(
o) I have no more hope in father, mother,
sister, or any worldly thing: for the dust and worms will be to me instead of
them.
17:16 p
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the
dust.
(
p) All worldly hope and prosperity fail which
you say, are only signs of God's favour but seeing that these things perish,
I set my hope in God and in the life everlasting.
Chapter 17:
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