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Mark Dunagan Commentaries

Job 17:15

He felt that his hope would die with him. "He had no hope of future prosperity, which his friends predicted" (Strauss p. 169). Job had already stated that he had no hope of recovering (Job 6:11; Job 7:6; Job 14:19).

Notice how our emotions can be completely wrong! Job was sure he was going to die soon, but he would live on for another 140 years (Job 42:16). He would see prosperity again. How short-sighted we can be when depressed! Contrast Job's depressing view of death with what the New Testament teaches (Philippians 1:21-23; 1 Peter 1:4; Revelation 14:13;. Thess. Job 4:13).

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See also Job 17:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 17:15. _AND WHERE_ IS _NOW MY HOPE?_] In the circumstances in which I am found, of what use can _hope_ be? Were I to form the expectation of future good, who could ever see it realized? Is i...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND WHERE IS NOW MY HOPE? - What hope have I of life? What possibility is there of my escape from death? WHO SHALL SEE IT? - That is, who will see any hopes that I may now cherish fulfilled. If I che...

  • 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

    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

    If in fact and in his own feeling Job so surely belongs to death, where is the brilliant hope which his friends hold out, and who shall ever see such a hope realized? or, who can perceive a trace of i...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND WHERE IS NOW MY HOPE?— The repetition of the word _hope_ is extremely elegant in this place. The two verses may be thus connoted; _Where now, pray, can be my hope? my hope indeed! whoever have a m...

  • 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

    _AND WHERE IS NOW MY HOPE? AS FOR MY HOPE, WHO SHALL SEE IT?_ And where. Where, then is my hope? The apodosis to Job 17:13. Who shall see at-fulfilled? namely, the "hope" (Job 11:18) which they held...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ֭ אַיֵּה אֵפֹ֣ו תִקְוָתִ֑י וְ֝ תִקְוָתִ֗י מ

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Who. Hebrew, "who shall see my hope?" I wish all might witness it. (Haydock) --- But I expect no redress on this side of the grave. (Calmet)_...

  • 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

    AND WHERE [IS] NOW MY HOPE?.... Not the grace of hope, which was in his heart; and though it might sometimes be low in exercise, it could not be lost; it is an anchor, sure and steadfast, and is one o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? Ver. 15. _And where is now my hope? &c._] Heb. And where is my hope? _sc._ of restoration to my pristine prosperity, which you have so of...

  • 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

    and where, or, "where, then," IS NOW MY HOPE? AS FOR MY HOPE, WHO SHALL SEE IT? Who would disclose and prove to him that he had any hope of being restored to health and strength!...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHERE IS NOW MY HOPE? and what then is become of that hope which you advised me to entertain? MY HOPE, i.e. the fulfilling of my hope, or the happiness which you would have me expect; hope being put f...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 17:15 Where H645 hope H8615 hope H8615 see H7789 (H8799) my hope - Job 4:6,...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _And where is now my hope?_ WHERE NOW MY HOPE I. Occasions in life which force upon us this inquiry. 1. In those seasons when the troubles of life press heavily. 2. When our human dependencies hav...

  • 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

    Job 13:15; Job 19:10; Job 4:6; Job 6:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hope — The happiness you would have me expect....

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