Job 17:15

Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

In Context

14If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

16All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

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Cross References

Job 4:6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

Job 7:6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Job 14:19Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.

Lamentations 3:18Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

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 →

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