Job 17
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Job 17
Job Prays for Relief
1 #
Ps 88.3, 4 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the grave is ready for me.
2 #
v 6
; 1 Sam 1.6, 7Surely there are mockers around me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3 #
Ps 119.122; Prov 6.1 “Lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is there who will give surety for me?
4 #
Job 12.20
Since you have closed their minds to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 #
Lev 19.16; Job 11.20 Those who denounce friends for reward—
the eyes of their children will fail.
6 #
Job 30.9, 10 “He has made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom people spit.
7 #
Job 16.16
My eye has grown dim from grief,
and all my members are like a shadow.
8The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
9 #
Job 22.30; Prov 4.18 Yet the righteous hold to their way,
and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
10But you, come back now, all of you,
and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
11 #
Job 7.6
My days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
12They make night into day;
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’#17.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
13 #
Job 3.13
If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in darkness,
14 #
Job 21.26; 24.20; Ps 16.10 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 #
Job 7.6
where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
16 #
Job 3.17–19; Jon 2.6 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall we descend together into the dust?”
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Job 17
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Job 17
Job Prays for Relief
1 #
Ps 88.3, 4 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the grave is ready for me.
2 #
v 6
; 1 Sam 1.6, 7Surely there are mockers around me,
and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3 #
Ps 119.122; Prov 6.1 “Lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is there who will give surety for me?
4 #
Job 12.20
Since you have closed their minds to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 #
Lev 19.16; Job 11.20 Those who denounce friends for reward—
the eyes of their children will fail.
6 #
Job 30.9, 10 “He has made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom people spit.
7 #
Job 16.16
My eye has grown dim from grief,
and all my members are like a shadow.
8The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
9 #
Job 22.30; Prov 4.18 Yet the righteous hold to their way,
and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.
10But you, come back now, all of you,
and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
11 #
Job 7.6
My days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
12They make night into day;
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’#17.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
13 #
Job 3.13
If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in darkness,
14 #
Job 21.26; 24.20; Ps 16.10 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 #
Job 7.6
where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
16 #
Job 3.17–19; Jon 2.6 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall we descend together into the dust?”
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