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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Job 17:14

To corruption, Heb. to the pit of corruption, the grave. Thou art my father; I am near akin to time, as being taken out of thee; and thou wilt receive and embrace me, and keep me in thy house, as parents do their children. Thou art my mother, and my sister; because of the same original, and the most strict and intimate union and conjunction between me and the worms.

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See also Job 17:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 17:14. _I HAVE SAID TO CORRUPTION_] I came from a corrupted stock, and I must go to corruption again. The Hebrew might be thus rendered: _To the ditch I have called, Thou_ art _my father. T...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I HAVE SAID - Margin, cried, or called. The sense is, “I say,” or “I thus address the grave.” TO CORRUPTION - The word used here (שׁחת _shachath_) means properly a pit, or pit-fall, Psalms 7:15; Psalm...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _to corruption_ Rather as above, THE PIT, or grave, Psalms 16:10. The words father, mother and sister, expressing the nearest relationship, indicate how closely Job now feels himself connected with th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The natural sense and connexion of these verses is as follows: 13. If I wait for the grave as mine house; If I have spread my bed in the darkness; 14. If I have said to the pit, thou art my father,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Final repudiation by Job of the false hopes of recovery which the friends held out to him. He knows better, _his_hope is in the grave. Turning with a last word to his friends Job bids them renew as o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I HAVE SAID TO CORRUPTION, THOU ART MY FATHER: TO THE WORM, THOU ART MY MOTHER, AND MY SISTER._ Thou art my father ... - Expressing most intimate connection (Job 30:29; Proverbs 7:4, "Say unto wisdo...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    17:14 grave, (h-5) Others 'corruption,' as Psalms 16:10 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the pre...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job knew what happens to dead bodies. And he thought that he was almost dead. He had no hope for the future. He did not know that God would rescue him (Job 42:10-17). Job simply wanted to prove that h...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לַ † שַּׁ֣חַת קָ֭רָאתִי אָ֣בִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּ֥י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my (o) father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. (o) I have no more hope in father, mother, sister, or any worldly thing: for the dust and worms...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sister. I am nearly related to such things, and ready to drop into the grave, as my flesh is already devoured by worms. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (11) My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. (12) They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. (13) If I wait, the grave is mine house:...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE SAID TO CORRUPTION, THOU [ART] MY FATHER,.... Not to the corruptible seed, of which he was begotten; nor to the corruption or purulent matter of his boils and ulcers, and the worms his flesh wa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. Ver. 14. _I have said to corruption, Thou art my father_] See how he speaks of corruption and the wo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I have said to corruption_ Hebrew, קראתי, _karati, I have called to corruption;_ to the grave, where the body will be dissolved and become corrupt. _Thou art my father_ I am near akin to thee, being...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have said to corruption, Thou art my father, if he has so cried out to the pit or grave; TO THE WORM, THOU ART MY MOTHER AND MY SISTER;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SAID: _ Heb._ cried, or called...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 17:14 say H7121 (H8804) corruption H7845 father H1 worm H7415 mother H517 sister H269 said - Heb. cried, or, called corruption -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:10 In both lines of v. Job 17:12, Job appears to refer to the viewpoint of his friends. They have said that if Job would simply repent, God will restore him and turn his...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:42; 1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Corinthians 15:54; Acts 13:34;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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