# Job 17 ## Job 17:1 - [KJV] My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves *are ready* for me. - [ASV] My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is *ready* for me. - [YLT] My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves *are* for me. ### Notes on Job 17:1 - ## Job 17:2 - [KJV] *Are there* not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? - [ASV] Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation. - [YLT] If not -- mockeries *are* with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. ### Notes on Job 17:2 - ## Job 17:3 - [KJV] Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who *is* he *that* will strike hands with me? - [ASV] Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me? - [YLT] Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me? ### Notes on Job 17:3 - ## Job 17:4 - [KJV] For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt *them*. - [ASV] For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt *them*. - [YLT] For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them. ### Notes on Job 17:4 - ## Job 17:5 - [KJV] He that speaketh flattery to *his* friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. - [ASV] He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. - [YLT] For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed. ### Notes on Job 17:5 - ## Job 17:6 - [KJV] He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. - [ASV] But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face. - [YLT] And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am. ### Notes on Job 17:6 - ## Job 17:7 - [KJV] Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members *are* as a shadow. - [ASV] Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. - [YLT] And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. ### Notes on Job 17:7 - ## Job 17:8 - [KJV] Upright *men* shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. - [ASV] Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. - [YLT] Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up. ### Notes on Job 17:8 - ## Job 17:9 - [KJV] The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. - [ASV] Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. - [YLT] And the righteous layeth hold *on* his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all. ### Notes on Job 17:9 - ## Job 17:10 - [KJV] But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find *one* wise *man* among you. - [ASV] But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you. - [YLT] Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man. ### Notes on Job 17:10 - ## Job 17:11 - [KJV] My days are past, my purposes are broken off, *even* the thoughts of my heart. - [ASV] My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. - [YLT] My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! ### Notes on Job 17:11 - ## Job 17:12 - [KJV] They change the night into day: the light *is* short because of darkness. - [ASV] They change the night into day: The light, *say they*, is near unto the darkness. - [YLT] Night for day they appoint, Light *is* near because of darkness. ### Notes on Job 17:12 - ## Job 17:13 - [KJV] If I wait, the grave *is* mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. - [ASV] If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; - [YLT] If I wait -- Sheol *is* my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. ### Notes on Job 17:13 - ## Job 17:14 - [KJV] I have said to corruption, Thou *art* my father: to the worm, *Thou art* my mother, and my sister. - [ASV] If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, *Thou art* my mother, and my sister; - [YLT] To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou *art* my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm. ### Notes on Job 17:14 - ## Job 17:15 - [KJV] And where *is* now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? - [ASV] Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? - [YLT] And where *is* now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? ### Notes on Job 17:15 - ## Job 17:16 - [KJV] They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when *our* rest together *is* in the dust. - [ASV] It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust. - [YLT] *To* the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest. ### Notes on Job 17:16 -