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Job 17 Geneva Bible (1599)

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1 My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me.
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2 There are none but mockers with mee, and mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7 Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8 The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9 But the righteous wil holde his way, and he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.
10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
11 My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
12 Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
13 Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.
13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14 I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
15 Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for?
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
16 They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.
16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend 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