Job 17

Job · Chapter 17

Job 17:15

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.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and where?וְ֭אַיֵּהVE-'ai-yehH0346
where?

אַיֵּה (ay.yeh) 1) where? 1a) of persons, things 1b) rhetorical

thenאֵפ֣וֹ'e-FOH0645
then

אֵפוֹ (e.pho) 1) then, now, so 1a) (who) then, (what) then (with interrog) 1b) then (with imperative-i.e. know then) 1c) if...then (with adv)

[is] hope myתִקְוָתִ֑יtik-va-TIH8615B
hope

תִּקְוָה (tiq.vah) 1) hope, expectation 1a) hope 1b) ground of hope 1c) things hoped for, outcome

and hope myוְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗יve-tik-va-TIH8615B
hope

תִּקְוָה (tiq.vah) 1) hope, expectation 1a) hope 1b) ground of hope 1c) things hoped for, outcome

who?מִ֣יmiH4310
who?

מִי (mi) who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever

will he observe itיְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃ye-shu-RE-nahH7789
to see

שׁוּר (shur) 1) to see, behold, observe, regard 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to behold, observe 1a2) to regard 1a3) to watch, watch (stealthily), lie in wait

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.