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IF I WAIT - Or more accurately, “truly I expect that the grave will
be my home.” The word rendered “if” (אם _'ı̂m_) is often
used in such a sense. The meaning is, “I look certainly to the grave
as my...
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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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THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35. Compare Job 17:16....
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_If I wait, the grave_ Rather as above. The _grave_is in Heb. _Sheol_,
the place of the departed. The word _wait_is the same as _hope_, Job
17:15....
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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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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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IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE— _I have no hope; the grave is my
house: I have spread my couch in darkness._...
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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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_IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE: I HAVE MADE MY BED IN THE
DARKNESS._
Rather, if I wait for the grave (scheol or the unseen world) as my
house, and make my bed in the darkness (Job 17:14), and say...
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RM 'If I hope, Sheol is mine house.'...
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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 expected to die soon. He did not realise that his spirit would
then go to heaven. Later, he would start to understand this (Job
19:26-27)....
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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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אִם ־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁאֹ֣ול בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝
† חֹ֗שֶׁךְ...
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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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If I wait, (n) the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness.
(n) Though I should hope to come from adversity to prosperity, as your
discourse pretends....
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_Hell. Seol. The region of the dead. (Challoner) --- Protestants,
"grave." (Haydock) --- But this text proves that there was a place of
rest called hell. (Worthington) --- He speaks here chiefly of th...
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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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IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE [IS] MINE HOUSE,.... Not that Job put an "if"
upon, or made a doubt of waiting upon God in private or public; or of
waiting for him, his gracious appearances to him, answers of pr...
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If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness.
Ver. 13. _If I wait, the grave is mine house_] In that congregation
house of all living (as it is called, Job 30:23) both I a...
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_If I wait, the grave is my house_ Hebrew, אם אקוה, _im akaveh_,
If I eagerly desire and expect any thing now, it is the grave, the
only habitation I can promise myself; and which I am just entering....
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Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
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If I wait, the grave is mine house, if he hopes for the realm of death
as his dwelling place; I HAVE MADE MY BED IN THE DARKNESS, having
spread his couch in the darkness of death....
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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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He was so close to dying that he could call the pit (the grave) his
father, and he could refer to the worm that would consume his body, as
his mother or sister....
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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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IF I WAIT; if I should give way to those hopes of my deliverance and
restoration which you suggest to me. THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE: I should
be sadly disappointed; for I am upon the borders of the grav...
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Job 17:13 wait H6960 (H8762) grave H7585 house H1004 make H7502
(H8765) bed H3326 darkness H2822
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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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_If I wait, the grave is mine house._
THE HOUSE OF THE GRAVE
I. Describe the house.
1. The grave is a very spacious house.
2. It is very dark and dreary.
3. It is a house of silence. It is empty....
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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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Isaiah 57:2; Job 10:21; Job 10:22; Job 14:14; Job 17:1;...
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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...