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Text -- Job 17:1-14 (NET)
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Context
17:1 My spirit is broken , my days have faded out , the grave awaits me.
17:2 Surely mockery is with me ; my eyes must dwell on their hostility .
17:3 Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?
17:4 Because you have closed their minds to understanding , therefore you will not exalt them.
17:5 If a man denounces his friends for personal gain , the eyes of his children will fail .
17:6 He has made me a byword to people , I am the one in whose face they spit .
17:7 My eyes have grown dim with grief ; my whole frame is but a shadow .
17:8 Upright men are appalled at this ; the innocent man is troubled with the godless .
17:9 But the righteous man holds to his way , and the one with clean hands grows stronger .
Anticipation of Death
17:10 “But turn , all of you, and come now ! I will not find a wise man among you.
17:11 My days have passed , my plans are shattered , even the desires of my heart .
17:12 These men change night into day ; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness .’
17:13 If I hope for the grave to be my home , if I spread out my bed in darkness ,
17:14 If I cry to corruption , ‘You are my father ,’ and to the worm , ‘My Mother ,’ or ‘My sister ,’
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Job |
Doubting |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Dead |
Death |
Hands |
Despondency |
STRIKE |
SURETY |
Body |
SISTER |
Destruction |
Perseverance |
Life |
Hypocrisy |
Hell |
MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKING |
Flattery |
Persecution |
MAKE, MAKER |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Job 17:1; Job 17:1; Job 17:1; Job 17:2; Job 17:2; Job 17:2; Job 17:3; Job 17:3; Job 17:4; Job 17:4; Job 17:4; Job 17:5; Job 17:6; Job 17:6; Job 17:6; Job 17:7; Job 17:7; Job 17:8; Job 17:8; Job 17:9; Job 17:10; Job 17:10; Job 17:10; Job 17:11; Job 17:11; Job 17:11; Job 17:12; Job 17:12; Job 17:12; Job 17:12; Job 17:13; Job 17:14; Job 17:14
NET Notes: Job 17:1 The plural “graves” could be simply an intensification, a plural of extension (see GKC 397 §124.c), or a reference to the graveyard. ...
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NET Notes: Job 17:2 The meaning of הַמְּרוֹתָם (hammÿrotam) is unclear, and the versions offer no h...
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NET Notes: Job 17:3 The idiom is “to strike the hand.” Here the wording is a little different, “Who is he that will strike himself into my hand?”
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NET Notes: Job 17:4 The object “them” is supplied. This is the simplest reading of the line, taking the verb is an active Polel. Some suggest that the subject...
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NET Notes: Job 17:5 Heb “for a portion.” This verse is rather obscure. The words are not that difficult, but the sense of them in this context is. Some take t...
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NET Notes: Job 17:6 The word תֹפֶת (tofet) is a hapax legomenon. The expression is “and a spitting in/to the face I have become,”...
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NET Notes: Job 17:7 The word יְצֻרִים (yÿtsurim), here with a suffix, occurs only here in the Bible. The word is rela...
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NET Notes: Job 17:8 The verb means “to rouse oneself to excitement.” It naturally means “to be agitated; to be stirred up.”
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NET Notes: Job 17:9 The last two words are the imperfect verb יֹסִיף (yosif) which means “he adds,” and the abstract noun ...
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NET Notes: Job 17:10 Instead of the exact correspondence between coordinate verbs, other combinations occur – here we have a jussive and an imperative (see GKC 386 &...
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NET Notes: Job 17:11 This word has been linked to the root יָרַשׁ (yarash, “to inherit”) yielding a meaning “the poss...
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NET Notes: Job 17:12 This expression is open to alternative translations: (1) It could mean that they say in the face of darkness, “Light is near.” (2) It coul...
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NET Notes: Job 17:13 The clause begins with אִם (’im) which here has more of the sense of “since.” E. Dhorme (Job, 253) takes a rather ...
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