Job 17
Job Continues: My Spirit Is Broken
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? Parallel theme: Job 12:4, 16:20
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? Parallel theme: Genesis 43:9, 44:32, Psalms 119:122, Proverbs 11:15, Isaiah 38:14, Hebrews 7:22
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. Parallel theme: 2 Samuel 17:14, Matthew 11:25, 13:11, 1 Corinthians 1:20
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. Parallel theme: Proverbs 20:19
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. Word: Job 30:9, Psalms 44:14
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. Parallel theme: Job 16:16, Psalms 6:7
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. Righteousness: Proverbs 4:18. Parallel theme: Job 22:30, Genesis 20:5, Psalms 24:4, 26:6, 73:13, 84:7, 84:11, Proverbs 14:16 +4
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. Parallel theme: Job 6:29, 42:7
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. Parallel theme: Job 7:6, Proverbs 16:9, Isaiah 8:10, 38:10, Lamentations 3:37
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. Parallel theme: Psalms 16:10
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? Hope: Job 19:10. Parallel theme: Job 13:15
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. Parallel theme: Jonah 2:6