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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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17:14 grave, (h-5) Others 'corruption,' as Psalms 16:10 ....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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לַ † שַּׁ֣חַת קָ֭רָאתִי אָ֣בִי
אָ֑תָּה אִמִּ֥י...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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_Sister. I am nearly related to such things, and ready to drop into
the grave, as my flesh is already devoured by worms. (Menochius)_...
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(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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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;...
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Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
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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...
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SAID:
_ Heb._ cried, or called...
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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...
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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 pa...
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Job 17:14 say H7121 (H8804) corruption H7845 father H1 worm H7415
mother H517 sister H269
said - Heb. cried, or, called
corruption -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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....