1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
5 He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
8 Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
Versículos relacionados com Job, 17:
In Job chapter 17, the protagonist continues to mourn his difficult situation and the lack of hope he feels about the future. He feels despised by his friends and abandoned by God. Following are five verses related to the topics covered in this chapter:
Psalm 88:8: "I pushed my acquaintances out of your eyes; I made myself a horror for them. I'm closed and I can't leave." This verse portrays the loneliness that Job feels and how he moved away from his acquaintances because of the suffering he is going through.
Isaiah 53:3: "He was despised, and the most rejected among men, a man of pain, and experienced in work; and, as one of whom men hid their face, was despised, and we did not do it at all." This verse talks about how Job feels despised and rejected by his friends and even God.
Psalm 88:15: "I am distressed and about to die from my youth; I carry upon me the terrors I provoke, and I am completely desperate." This verse describes Job's desperate condition, which feels that it has been carrying the weight of suffering since its youth.
Lamentations 3:18: "And said, My strength and my hope was consumed in the Lord." Job feels that he has lost all his strength and hope, especially in relation to God, and that he has nothing more to hold on.
Psalm 22:14: "I am poured out as water, and all my bones are distressed; my heart is like wax, melted in the middle of my bowels." This verse illustrates the physical and emotional weakness that Job feels, comparing it with water and melted wax.
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