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Verse Job 17:10. _BUT AS FOR YOU ALL_] Ye are too proud, and too full
of self-importance, to profit by what ye see. _Return _- enter into
yourselves, consider your ways, go again to school, get back t...
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BUT AS FOR YOU ALL, DO YOU RETURN - This may mean, either, “return
to the debate;” or, “return from your unjust and uncharitable
opinion concerning me.” The former seems to accord best with the
scope...
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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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YOU. So some codices, with Syriac and "Vulgate, which Authorized
Version and Revised Version followed. Other codices read "them"....
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_do ye return, and come_ Job bids them renew, if they please, their
attempts to solve his problem or deal with his case; as often as they
did so they only revealed their incapacity and foolishness.
_...
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BUT AS FOR YOU ALL, &C.— _Now, therefore, recollect yourselves, all
of you, and consider, I pray you: cannot I find one wise man among
you?_ Heath and Houbigant. See ch. Job 6:28....
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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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_BUT AS FOR YOU ALL, DO YE RETURN, AND COME NOW: FOR I CANNOT FIND ONE
WISE MAN AMONG YOU._
Return - if you have anything to advance really wise, though I doubt
it, recommended your speech. For as ye...
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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, 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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BUT AS FOR YOU ALL, DO YE RETURN. — This is probably said with
irony. “Come again and renew the argument between us; but I shall
not be able to find a wise man among you. I am willing to listen to
you...
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וְֽ אוּלָ֗ם כֻּלָּ֣ם תָּ֭שֻׁבוּ וּ
בֹ֣אוּ נָ֑א וְ לֹֽא ־אֶמְצָ֖א בָכֶ֣ם
חָכָֽם׃...
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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 ter...
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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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But as for (l) you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find
[one] wise [man] among you.
(l) Job speaks to the three who came to comfort him....
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_Man. He offers to dispute with them again, and convince them of
folly; (Menochius) or rather he here concludes his address to them,
and invites them to change their preposterous judgments._...
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(4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt
thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends,
even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me a...
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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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BUT AS FOR YOU ALL, DO YE RETURN, AND COME NOW,.... This is an address
to his three friends, all and everyone of them, who he perceived were
nettled with his reply, and were either departing, or prepa...
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find
[one] wise [man] among you.
Ver. 10. _But as for you all, do you return, &c._] Change your minds,
as Malachi 3:18, and close with me,...
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_But as for you all_ Who have charged me so heavily. _Do you return
and come now_ Recollect yourselves: reflect on what I have said, and
consider my cause again; peradventure your second thoughts may...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...
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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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"BUT COME AGAIN ALL OF YOU NOW, FOR. DO NOT FIND. WISE MAN AMONG YOU":
Here he challenges all of his friends to another round of debate and
is prepared to take them on, fully aware that they are total...
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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 the...
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RETURN, AND COME NOW, i.e. come now again, (as this phrase is oft
used,) and renew the debate, as I see you are prepared and resolved to
do, and I am ready to receive you. Or, return into yourselves,...
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Job 17:10 But H199 come H935 (H8798) again H7725 (H8799) find H4672
(H8799) wise H2450
do ye return - Job 6:29; Malachi 3:18
for I - Job 17:4, Job 15:9, Job 32:9,...
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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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_The wise are not always wise:--All the ways of sin and error are ways
of folly._
But was not Job censorious and rigid, too bold and adventurous to
speak thus concerning men of such gravity, authorit...
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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 NIGHT INTO...
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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...
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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, an...
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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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1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 6:5; Job 15:9; Job 17:4; Job 32:9;
Job 42:7; Job 6:29; Malachi 3:18...
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Come — And renew the debate, as I see you are resolved to do....