Chapter 17
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
breath is corrupt
or, spirit is spent.
my days
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
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
aforetime
or, before them. as a tabret.
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
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
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
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
I have made
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
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
my hope
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