Job 17:15
Therefore, where is my expectation now, and who is it that considers my patience?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”
Cross References
Job 4:6Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?
Job 7:6My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.
Job 14:19Waters wear away stones, and with a flood the land is reduced little by little; and similarly, you will destroy man.
Lamentations 3:18VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
Matthew Henry on Job 17:11-16
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. ( b. c. 1520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →