Job 17

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Job 17

Job Says He Has Become a Byword

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“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The ^(a)^(A)grave is ready for me.

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“^(B)Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye ^(b)gazes on their provocation.

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“Lay down, now, a pledge ^(C)for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will ^(c)be my guarantor?

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“For You have ^(d)^(D)kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.

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“He who ^(E)informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The ^(F)eyes of his children also will languish.

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“But He has made me a ^(G)byword of the people,
And I am ^(e)one at whom men ^(H)spit.

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“My eye has also grown ^(I)dim because of grief,
And all my ^(J)members are as a shadow.

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“The upright will be appalled at this,
And the ^(K)innocent will stir up himself against the godless.

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“Nevertheless ^(L)the righteous will hold to his way,
And ^(M)he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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“But come again all of ^(f)you now,
For I ^(N)do not find a wise man among you.

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“My ^(O)days are past, my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.

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“They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.

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“If I look for ^(P)Sheol as my home,
I ^(g)make my bed in the darkness;

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If I call to the ^(Q)pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the ^(R)worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

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Where now is ^(S)my hope?
And who regards my hope?

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“^(h)Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together ^(T)go down into the dust?”

Footnotes:

a. Job 17:1: ['Lit ', graves]

b. Job 17:2: ['Lit ', lodges]

c. Job 17:3: ['Lit ', strike hands with me]

d. Job 17:4: ['Lit ', hidden]

e. Job 17:6: ['Lit ', a spitting to the faces]

f. Job 17:10: ['With some ancient mss and versions; M.T. ', them]

g. Job 17:13: ['Lit ', spread out]

h. Job 17:16: ['So the Gr; Heb possibly ', Let my, ' limbs ', sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all]

Cross references:

A. Job 17:1: Psalm 88:3; Psalm 88:4

B. Job 17:2: Job 12:4; Job 17:6

C. Job 17:3: Psalm 119:122; Isaiah 38:14

D. Job 17:4: Job 12:20

E. Job 17:5: Leviticus 19:13; Leviticus 19:16

F. Job 17:5: Job 11:20

G. Job 17:6: Job 17:2

H. Job 17:6: Job 30:10

I. Job 17:7: Job 16:16

J. Job 17:7: Job 16:8

K. Job 17:8: Job 22:19

L. Job 17:9: Proverbs 4:18

M. Job 17:9: Job 22:30; Job 31:7

N. Job 17:10: Job 12:2

O. Job 17:11: Job 7:6

P. Job 17:13: Job 3:13

Q. Job 17:14: Job 7:5; Job 13:28; Job 30:30

R. Job 17:14: Job 21:26; Job 25:6

S. Job 17:15: Job 7:6

T. Job 17:16: Job 3:17; Job 21:33