Job 17
About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.SelectedJob 17:1Ask
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?SelectedJob 17:2Ask
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?SelectedJob 17:3Ask
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.SelectedJob 17:4Ask
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.SelectedJob 17:5Ask
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.SelectedJob 17:6Ask
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.SelectedJob 17:7Ask
8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.SelectedJob 17:8Ask
9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.SelectedJob 17:9Ask
10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.SelectedJob 17:10Ask
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.SelectedJob 17:11Ask
12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.SelectedJob 17:12Ask
13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.SelectedJob 17:13Ask
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.SelectedJob 17:14Ask
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?SelectedJob 17:15Ask
16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.SelectedJob 17:16Ask
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