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CHAP. XVII.
1 Iob appealeth from men to God. 6 The vnmercifull dealing of men with the afflicted, may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. 11 His hope is not in life, but in death.
Iob reckoneth vp his many afflictions.
1 My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.1
2 Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation?2
3 Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5 Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile.
6 He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret.6
7 Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.7
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger.9
10 But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11 My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart:11
12 They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes.12
13 If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.
14 I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister.14
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
View Wesley's Notes for Job Chapter 17
17:1 The graves - He speaks of the sepulchres of his fathers, to which he must be gathered. The graves where they are laid, are ready for me also. Whatever is unready, the grave is ready for us: it is a bed soon made. And if the grave be ready for us, it concerns us, to be ready for the grave.
17:2 Are not - Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock me? Thus he returns to what he had said, chap.#16:20|, and intimates the justice of his following appeal.
17:3 Surety - These words contain, an humble desire to God that he would be his surety, or appoint him a surety who should maintain his righteous cause against his opposers. Strike hands - Be surety to me; whereof that was the usual gesture.
17:4 Hid - Thou hast blinded the minds of my friends: therefore I desire a more wise and able judge. Therefore - Thou wilt not give them the victory over me in this contest, but wilt make them ashamed of their confidence.
17:7 As a shadow - I am grown so poor and thin, that I am not to be called a man, but the shadow of a man.
17:8 Astonied - At the depth and mysteriousness of God's judgments, which fall on innocent men, while the worst of men prosper. Yet - Notwithstanding all these sufferings of good men, and the astonishment which they cause, he shall the more zealously oppose those hypocrites, who make these strange providences of God an objection to religion.
17:10 Come - And renew the debate, as I see you are resolved to do.
17:11 My days - The days of my life. I am a dying man, and therefore the hopes you give me of the bettering of my condition, are vain. Purposes - Which I had in my prosperous days, concerning myself and children.
17:12 They - My thoughts so incessantly pursue and disturb me, that I can no more sleep in the night, than in the day. The light - The day - light, which often gives some comfort to men in misery, seems to be gone as soon as it is begun. Darkness - Because of my grievous pains and torments which follow me by day as well as by night.
17:13 Wait - For deliverance, I should be disappointed; for I am upon the borders of the grave, I expect no rest but in the dark grave, for which therefore I prepare myself. I endeavour to make it easy, by keeping my conscience pure, by seeing Christ lying in this bed, (so turning it into a bed of spices) and by looking beyond it to the resurrection.
17:14 Corruption - Heb. to the pit of corruption, the grave. Father - I am near a - kin to thee, and thou wilt receive and keep me in thy house, as parents do their children.
17:15 Hope - The happiness you would have me expect.
17:16 They - My hopes, of which he spake in the singular number, ver.#15|, which he here changes into the plural, as is usual in these poetical books. Bars - Into the innermost parts of the pit: my hopes are dying, and will be buried in my grave. We must shortly be in the dust, under the bars of the pit, held fast there, 'till the general resurrection. All good men, if they cannot agree now will there rest together. Let the foresight of this cool the heat of all contenders, and moderate the disputers of this world.
Job Chapter 17 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
1 Or, my spirit is spent.
2 Heb. lodge.
6 Or, before them.
7 Or, my thoughts.
9 Hebr. shall adde strgth.
11 Hebr. the possessions.
12 Heb. neere.
14 Heb. cried, or called.
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
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