Job 17 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves "

" Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? "

" Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands "

" For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt "

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

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

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

" Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. "

" The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. "

" But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise "

" My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. "

" They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. "

" If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. "

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

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

" They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. "