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Job 17

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEB“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
    KJVMy breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
  2. 2
    WEBSurely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
    KJVAre there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
  3. 3
    WEB“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
    KJVLay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
  4. 4
    WEBFor you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
    KJVFor thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
  5. 5
    WEBHe who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
    KJVHe that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
  6. 6
    WEB“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
    KJVHe hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
  7. 7
    WEBMy eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
    KJVMine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
  8. 8
    WEBUpright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
    KJVUpright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
  9. 9
    WEBYet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
    KJVThe righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
  10. 10
    WEBBut as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
    KJVBut as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
  11. 11
    WEBMy days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
    KJVMy days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
  12. 12
    WEBThey change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
    KJVThey change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
  13. 13
    WEBIf I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
    KJVIf I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
  14. 14
    WEBif I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
    KJVI have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
  15. 15
    WEBwhere then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
    KJVAnd where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
  16. 16
    WEBShall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
    KJVThey shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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