Job 17

Job 17:2

Doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Is not their unjust provocation continually in mine eye; so as I cannot but be a woeful witness of their injury?

Job 17:3

Lay down now, put me in surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

I do much desire to have my case thoroughly tried; let me see then, who will give security to maintain the suit with me, who will agree to join issue with me upon this point.

Job 17:5

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

He, that flatters his friend, shall find God plaguing him, both in himself, and in his seed after him:

Job 17:6

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and before them I was a tabret.

But for me, this is not my case; I am scorned rather: it hath pleased God to give me over to so great misery, that I am become a byword to the world; and am the matter of minstrelsy and sport to mine enemies.

Job 17:12

They change the night into the day: the light is short because of darkness.

My great afflictions change my night into day; causing me to pass over that time of darkness without any rest, so as my thoughts are no less busy, than in the day-time; and so great is the darkness of my misery, that it eclipseth my day, and makes it either short, or none.

Job 17:13

If I wait, the grave is my house, &c.

Tell not me of any restoration of myself, or of my estate: all that I can wait for, is the grave; that shall, I hope, receive and shelter me.

Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: and to the worms, Thou art my sister, and my mother.

I am even already entering into my grave; the corruption whereof hath already seized upon me; and I have yielded myself up unto it, and am as it were incorporated in it.

Job 17:16

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Those hopes, that you speak of, shall go down with me to the bottom of the grave, and shall rest with me together in the dust.