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17:3 Make <07760> then my pledge <06148> with <05973> you. Who <04310> else will put up security <08628> <03027> for me? 17:4 Because <03588> you have closed <06845> their minds <03820> to understanding <07922>, therefore <03651> you will not <03808> exalt <07311> them. 17:5 If a man denounces <05046> his friends <07453> for personal gain <02506>, the eyes <05869> of his children <01121> will fail <03615>. 17:6 He has made <03322> me a byword <04914> to people <05971>, I am the one in whose face <06440> they spit <08611>. 17:7 My eyes <05869> have grown dim <03543> with grief <03708>; my whole <03605> frame <03338> is but a shadow <06738>. 17:8 Upright <03477> men are appalled <08074> at <05921> this <02063>; the innocent <05355> man is troubled <05782> with <05921> the godless <02611>. 17:9 But the righteous <06662> man holds <0270> to his way <01870>, and the one with clean <02891> hands <03027> grows <03254> stronger <0555>. 17:10 “But <0199> turn <07725>, all <03605> of you, and come <0935> now <04994>! I will not <03808> find <04672> a wise <02450> man among you. 17:11 My days <03117> have passed <05674>, my plans <02154> are shattered <05423>, even the desires <04180> of my heart <03824>. 17:12 These men change night <03915> into day <03117>; they say, ‘The light <0216> is near <07138> in the face <06440> of darkness <02822>.’ 17:13 If <0518> I hope <06960> for the grave <07585> to be my home <01004>, if I spread <07502> out my bed <03326> in darkness <02822>, 17:14 If I cry <07121> to corruption <07845>, ‘You <0859> are my father <01>,’ and to the worm <07415>, ‘My Mother <0517>,’ or ‘My sister <0269>,’ 17:15 where <0346> then <0645> is my hope <08615>? And my hope <08615>, who <04310> sees <07789> it? 17:16 Will it go down <03381> to the barred <0905> gates of death <07585>? Will we descend <05183> together <03162> into the dust <06083>?”

• Job 17:10-16 -- Anticipation of Death

• Worm

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars ...
  

• Tabret

  [ebd] (Heb. toph), a timbrel (q.v.) or tambourine, generally played by women (Gen. 31:27; 1 Sam. 10:5; 18:6). In Job 17:6 the word (Heb. topheth) "tabret" should be, as in the Revised Version, "an open abhorring" (marg., "one in w...
  

• SHEOL

  [isbe] SHEOL - she'-ol (she'ol): 1. The Name 2. The Abode of the Dead (1) Not a State of Unconsciousness (2) Not Removed from God's Jurisdiction (3) Relation to Immortality 3. Post-canonical Period 1. The Name: This word is often t...
  

• MAKE, MAKER

  [isbe] MAKE, MAKER - mak, mak'-er (`asah, nathan, sum; poieo, tithemi, kathistemi): 1. As Used in the Old Testament: "Make" is a frequently used word, meaning "to create," "construct," "cause," "constitute," etc., and represents di...
  

• LAY; LAYING

  [isbe] LAY; LAYING - la, la'-ing: (1) sim, "to put," and the Greek equivalent, tithemi, are very frequently translated by "to lay." the Revised Version (British and American) very often changes the King James Version rendering of s...
  

• JOB, BOOK OF

  [isbe] JOB, BOOK OF - || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Place in the Canon 2. Rank and Readers II. THE LITERARY FRAMEWORK 1. Setting of Time, Place and Scene 2. Characters and Personality 3. Form and Style III. THE COURSE OF THE STORY A) To Jo...
  

• HYPOCRISY; HYPROCRITE

  [isbe] HYPOCRISY; HYPROCRITE - hi-pok'-ri-si, hip'-o-krit (choneph, chaneph; hupokrisis, hupokrites): (1) "Hypocrisy" occurs only once in the Old Testament as the translation of choneph (Isa 32:6, the Revised Version (British and A...
  

• GODLESS

  [isbe] GODLESS - god'-les: This word is not found in the text of the King James Version. It is found, however, in Apocrypha (2 Macc 7:34, "O godless (the Revised Version (British and American) "unholy") man"). the Revised Version (...
  

• FATHER

  [isbe] FATHER - fa'-ther (Anglo-Saxon, Foeder; German, Vater; Hebrew 'abh, etymology uncertain, found in many cognate languages; Greek pater, from root pa, "nourisher," "protector," "upholder"): 1. Immediate Male Ancestor: Immediat...
  

• FAIL

  [isbe] FAIL - fal (kalah, karath; ekleipo): "Fail" is both intransitive, "to fall short," "be wanting," and trans, "to be wanting to." Of the many words translated "fail" in the Old Testament, kalah is the most frequent, meaning "t...
  

• EYE

  [isbe] EYE - i (`ayin; ophthalmos): (1) The physical organ of sight, "the lamp of the body" (Mt 6:22), one of the chief channels of information for man. A cruel custom therefore sanctioned among heathen nations the putting out of t...
  

• EXALT

  [isbe] EXALT - eg-zolt' (rum, gabhah (mappiq he), nasa'; hupsoo): The Hebrew word most often translated "exalt," "exalted," is rum; "to lift up," "to be or become high." It is used with reference to both God and man, e.g. Ex 15:2, ...
  

• ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

  [isbe] ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT - es-ka-tol'-o-ji A) Scope of Article B) Dr. Charles' Work C) Individual Religion in Israel I. FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS 1. Idea of God 2. Idea of Man Body, Soul and Spirit 3. Sin and Death II. CONCE...
  

• Doubting

  [nave] DOUBTING. Job 4:3-6; Job 9:16-23; Job 30:20, 21 Job 3; 16; 17; 23:15-17. Psa. 22:2; Psa. 31:22; Psa. 42:5, 6; Psa. 49:5; Psa. 73:13-17; Psa. 77:3, 7-9; Prov. 24:10; Isa. 40:27, 28 Isa. 50:2. Isa. 49:14, 15; Jer. 8:18; Jer. ...
  

• Darkness

  [ebd] The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness "which may be felt." It covered "all the land of Egypt," so that "they saw not one another." It did not extend to the land of Goshen (ver. 23)....
  

• CORRUPTION

  [isbe] CORRUPTION - ko-rup'-shun: The Hebrew words mishchath, mashchath, mashchith, and their Greek equivalents, phthora, and diaphthora, with numerous derivatives and cognate verbs, imply primarily physical degeneration and decay ...
  

• CHANGE

  [isbe] CHANGE - chanj: A word which seeks to express the many shades of meaning contained in 13 variations of 9 Hebrew words and 5 Greek. These signify, in turn, "to change" "to exchange," "to turn," "to put or place," "to make oth...
  

• BYWORD

  [isbe] BYWORD - bi'-wurd: shammah = "consternation," "astonishment," "waste," "wonderful language," "object of remark" (Dt 28:37; 1 Ki 9:7; 2 Ch 7:20); mashal, or meshol = "a satire,'' "byword" (Job 17:6; Ps 44:14); millah, or mil...
  

• BED; BEDCHAMBER; BEDSTEAD

  [isbe] BED; BEDCHAMBER; BEDSTEAD - For the very poor of the East, in ancient times as now, the "bed" was and is, as a rule, the bare ground; and the bedclothes, the gown, simlah, or "outer garment," worn during the day ("For that i...
  

• BAR (2)

  [isbe] BAR (2) - bar (substantive): (1) beriach = "a bolt" (Ex 26:26-29; 35:11; 36:31-34; 39:33; 40:18; Nu 3:36; 4:31; Dt 3:5; Jdg 16:3; 1 Sam 23:7; 1 Ki 4:13; 2 Ch 8:5; 14:7; Neh 3:3,6,13-15; Job 38:10 "bars and doors" for the sea...
  

• The Grave Awaits Me

  

• Does the Bible speak more about Hell than Heaven?
  I've heard and read the same statement a number of times, but have never troubled myself to look up each passage. I'm not surprised that looking up "heaven" and "hell" in a concordance would give you contradictory results. T...

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