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Text -- Job 17:10-16 (NET)
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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 ,’
17:15 where then is my hope ? And my hope , who sees it?
17:16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death ? Will we descend together into the dust ?”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Afflictions and Adversities |
Job |
Doubting |
Dead |
Despondency |
Hell |
Death |
Body |
Destruction |
STAVES |
SHEOL |
BED; BEDCHAMBER; BEDSTEAD |
BAR (2) |
Worm |
CHANGE |
CORRUPTION |
Darkness |
FATHER |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
SISTER |
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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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NET Notes: Job 17:15 The repetition of “my hope” in the verse has thrown the versions off, and their translations have led commentators also to change the seco...
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