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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 17

Chapter 17

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

breath is corrupt

or, spirit is spent.

19:17

my days

6:11 42:16 Isaiah 57:16

the graves

13,14 Psalms 88:3-5 Isaiah 38:10-14

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

mockers

12:4 13:9 16:20 21:3 Psalms 35:14-16 Matthew 27:39-44

continue

Heb. lodge.

Psalms 25:13 91:1 *marg:

provocation

1 Samuel 1:6,7

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

put me

9:33 Genesis 43:9 44:32 Proverbs 11:15 20:16 Hebrews 7:22

strike

Proverbs 6:11 11:15 *marg:; Proverbs 17:18 22:26

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

2 Samuel 15:31 17:14 2 Chronicles 25:16 Isaiah 19:14 Matthew 11:25 13:11 Romans 11:8 1 Corinthians 1:20

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

He that

32:21,22 Psalms 12:2,3 Proverbs 20:19 29:5 1 Thessalonians 2:5

the eyes

Exodus 20:5 Deuteronomy 28:65 1 Kings 11:12 Lamentations 4:17

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

a by-word

30:9 1 Kings 9:7 Psalms 44:14

aforetime

or, before them. as a tabret.

Genesis 31:27 Isaiah 5:12

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

Mine eye

16:16 Psalms 6:7 31:9,10 Lamentations 5:17

members

or, thoughts.

shadow

Psalms 109:23 Ecclesiastes 6:12

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

astonied

Psalms 73:12-15 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Habakkuk 1:13 Romans 11:33

stir up

34:30 Acts 13:46

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

hold on

Psalms 84:7,11 Proverbs 4:18 14:16 Isaiah 35:8-10 1 Peter 1:5 1 John 2:19

clean

Genesis 20:5 Psalms 24:4 26:6 73:13 Isaiah 1:15,16 Mark 7:2

be stronger and stronger

Heb. add strength.

Isaiah 40:29-31 2 Corinthians 12:9,10

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

do ye return

6:29 Malachi 3:18

for I

4 15:9 32:9 42:7 1 Corinthians 1:20 6:5

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

My days

7:6 9:25,26 Isaiah 38:10

purposes

Proverbs 16:9 19:21 Ecclesiastes 9:10 Isaiah 8:10 Lamentations 3:37 Romans 1:13 2 Corinthians 1:15-17 James 4:13-15

thoughts

Heb. possessions.

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

change

7:3,4,13,14 24:14-16 Deuteronomy 28:67

short

Heb. near.

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

If I wait

14:14 Psalms 27:14 Lamentations 3:25,26

the grave

1 10:21,22 30:23

I have made

Psalms 139:8 Isaiah 57:2

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

said

Heb. cried, or, called. corruption.

21:32,33 Psalms 16:10 49:9 Acts 2:27-31 13:34-37 1 Corinthians 15:42,53,54

to the worm

19:26 24:20 Isaiah 14:11

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

my hope

4:6 6:11 13:15 19:10

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

the bars of the pit

18:13,14 33:18-28 Psalms 88:4-8 143:7 Isaiah 38:17,18 Jonah 2:6

rest

3:17-19 Ezekiel 37:11 2 Corinthians 1:9