Job 17:15
Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
16With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly—into the dust, is the descent!
Cross References
Job 4:6Is not, thy reverence, thy confidence? And is not, thy hope, the very integrity of thy ways?
Job 7:6My days, are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
Job 14:19Stones, have been hollowed out by waters, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth, and, the hope of mortal man, thou hast destroyed:
Lamentations 3:18And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
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 →