Job 17:15
Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
16They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.
Cross References
Job 4:6Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?
Job 7:6My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
Job 14:19As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.
Lamentations 3:18And I saide, My strength and mine 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 →