Job 17
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- עַלʻalH59214× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- יוֹםyôwmH31173× in this chapter
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
- לֹאlôʼH38083× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- אִםʼimH5183× in this chapter
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
- עַיִןʻayinH58693× in this chapter
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
- חֹשֶׁךְchôshekH28222× in this chapter
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
- יָדyâdH30272× in this chapter
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
- כֹּלkôlH36052× in this chapter
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- מִיmîyH43102× in this chapter
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
- נָאnâʼH49942× in this chapter
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64402× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- שְׁאוֹלshᵉʼôwlH75852× in this chapter
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
- שׂוּםsûwmH77602× in this chapter
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
- תִּקְוָהtiqvâhH86152× in this chapter
literally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancy
- אָבʼâbH11× in this chapter
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בֵּןbênH11211× in this chapter
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
- דֶּרֶךְderekH18701× in this chapter
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
- הוּאhûwʼH19311× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הָיָהhâyâhH19611× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- אוּלָםʼûwlâmH1991× in this chapter
however or on the contrary
- הָתֹלhâthôlH20491× in this chapter
a derision
- זֹאתzôʼthH20631× in this chapter
this (often used adverb)
- זִמָּהzimmâhH21541× in this chapter
a plan, especially a bad one
- אוֹרʼôwrH2161× in this chapter
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
- זָעַךְzâʻakH21931× in this chapter
to extinguish
- חָבַלchâbalH22541× in this chapter
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
- חָכָםchâkâmH24501× in this chapter
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
- חֵלֶקchêleqH25061× in this chapter
properly, smoothness (of the tongue); also an allotment
- חָנֵףchânêphH26111× in this chapter
soiled (i.e. with sin), impious
- אָחוֹתʼâchôwthH2691× in this chapter
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
- אָחַזʼâchazH2701× in this chapter
to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
- טָהוֹרṭâhôwrH28891× in this chapter
pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
- יַחַדyachadH31621× in this chapter
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
- יָסַףyâçaphH32541× in this chapter
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
- יָצַגyâtsagH33221× in this chapter
to place permanently
- יָצוּעַyâtsûwaʻH33261× in this chapter
spread, i.e. a bed; (architecture) an extension, i.e. wing or lean-to (a single story or collectively)
- יָצֻרyâtsurH33381× in this chapter
structure, i.e. limb or part
- יָרַדyâradH33811× in this chapter
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
- אַיֵּהʼayêhH3461× in this chapter
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