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Job 17 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Simplified language
  • 1965
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me. 2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. 3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine. 4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour. 5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children. 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport. 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade. 8 The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers. 9 Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength. 10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart. 12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark. 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

Cross references (16)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Isaiah 38:10–14; Psalm 88:3–5; Job 17:13–14; Job 42:16; Job 6:11
  2. 2 Job 12:4; Job 16:20; 1 Samuel 1:6–7; Matthew 27:39–44; Psalm 35:14–16
  3. 3 Hebrews 7:22; Proverbs 11:15; Isaiah 38:14; Genesis 44:32; Psalm 119:122
  4. 4 Matthew 11:25; Matthew 13:11; 2 Samuel 17:14; Isaiah 19:14; 1 Corinthians 1:20
  5. 5 Psalm 12:2–3; Proverbs 20:19; Proverbs 29:5; Exodus 20:5; 1 Kings 11:12
  6. 6 Job 30:9; Psalm 44:14; 1 Kings 9:7; Isaiah 5:12; Genesis 31:27
  7. 7 Psalm 6:7; Job 16:16; Psalm 31:9–10; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Lamentations 5:17
  8. 8 Habakkuk 1:13; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Job 34:30; Job 22:19; Romans 11:33
  9. 9 Proverbs 4:18; Isaiah 1:15–16; Job 22:30; Psalm 84:7; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10
  10. 10 Job 42:7; Job 6:29; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 6:5; Job 17:4
  11. 11 Job 7:6; Isaiah 38:10; Proverbs 16:9; James 4:13–15; Isaiah 8:10
  12. 12 Job 24:14–16; Job 7:13–14; Job 7:3–4; Deuteronomy 28:67
  13. 13 Job 10:21–22; Job 30:23; Job 3:13; Psalm 139:8; Job 14:14
  14. 14 Psalm 16:10; Job 24:20; Acts 13:34–37; Job 21:32–33; Job 30:30
  15. 15 Job 13:15; Job 19:10; Job 4:6; Job 6:11; Job 7:6
  16. 16 Job 3:17–19; Jonah 2:6; Ezekiel 37:11; Isaiah 38:17–18; Job 18:13–14

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences