Job 17
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 17, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}
Job 17:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}
Job 17:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who {is} he {that} will strike hands with me?
Job 17:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt {them}.
Job 17:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He that speaketh flattery to {his} friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 17:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
Job 17:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}
Job 17:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Upright {men} shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 17:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. {be...: Heb. add strength}
Job 17:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find {one} wise {man} among you.
Job 17:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My days are past, my purposes are broken off, {even} the thoughts of my heart. {the thoughts: Heb. the possessions}
Job 17:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They change the night into day: the light {is} short because of darkness. {short: Heb. near}
Job 17:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I wait, the grave {is} mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job 17:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
14
I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}
Job 17:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And where {is} now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when {our} rest together {is} in the dust.
Job 17:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.