Apologetics Bible

Job 17:1

Hebrew

רוּחִי חֻבָּלָה יָמַי נִזְעָכוּ קְבָרִים לִֽי׃

rvchiy-chuvalah-yamay-nize'akhv-qevariym-liy

KJV: My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

AKJV: My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

ASV: My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,

YLT: My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves are for me.

Exposition: Job 17:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:2

Hebrew

אִם־לֹא הֲתֻלִים עִמָּדִי וּבְהַמְּרוֹתָם תָּלַן עֵינִֽי׃

'im-lo'-hatuliym-'imadiy-vvehamervotam-talan-'eyniy

KJV: Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

AKJV: Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?

ASV: Surely there are mockers with me,

YLT: If not--mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.

Exposition: Job 17:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:3

Hebrew

שִֽׂימָה־נָּא עָרְבֵנִי עִמָּךְ מִֽי הוּא לְיָדִי יִתָּקֵֽעַ׃

shiymah-na'-'areveniy-'imakhe-miy-hv'-leyadiy-yitaqe'a

KJV: Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

AKJV: Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?

ASV: Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;

YLT: Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?

Exposition: Job 17:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:4

Hebrew

כִּֽי־לִבָּם צָפַנְתָּ מִּשָּׂכֶל עַל־כֵּן לֹא תְרֹמֵֽם׃

khiy-livam-tzafaneta-mishakhel-'al-khen-lo'-teromem

KJV: For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

AKJV: For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.

ASV: For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:

YLT: For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

Exposition: Job 17:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:5

Hebrew

לְחֵלֶק יַגִּיד רֵעִים וְעֵינֵי בָנָיו תִּכְלֶֽנָה׃

lecheleq-yagiyd-re'iym-ve'eyney-vanayv-tikhelenah

KJV: He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

AKJV: He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

ASV: He that denounceth his friends for a prey,

YLT: For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

Exposition: Job 17:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:6

Hebrew

וְֽהִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁל עַמִּים וְתֹפֶת לְפָנִים אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃

vehitziganiy-limeshol-'amiym-vetofet-lefaniym-'eheyeh

KJV: He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

AKJV: He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

ASV: But he hath made me a byword of the people;

YLT: And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

Exposition: Job 17:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:7

Hebrew

וַתֵּכַהּ מִכַּעַשׂ עֵינִי וִֽיצֻרַי כַּצֵּל כֻּלָּֽם׃

vatekhah-mikha'ash-'eyniy-viytzuray-khatzel-khulam

KJV: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

AKJV: My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

ASV: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,

YLT: And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

Exposition: Job 17:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:8

Hebrew

יָשֹׁמּוּ יְשָׁרִים עַל־זֹאת וְנָקִי עַל־חָנֵף יִתְעֹרָֽר׃

yashomv-yeshariym-'al-zo't-venaqiy-'al-chanef-yite'orar

KJV: Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

AKJV: Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

ASV: Upright men shall be astonished at this,

YLT: Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.

Exposition: Job 17:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:9

Hebrew

וְיֹאחֵז צַדִּיק דַּרְכּוֹ וּֽטֳהָר־יָדַיִם יֹסִיף אֹֽמֶץ׃

veyo'chez-tzadiyq-darekhvo-vtohar-yadayim-yosiyf-'ometz

KJV: The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

AKJV: The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

ASV: Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,

YLT: And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And--dumb are they all.

Exposition: Job 17:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:10

Hebrew

וְֽאוּלָם כֻּלָּם תָּשֻׁבוּ וּבֹאוּ נָא וְלֹֽא־אֶמְצָא בָכֶם חָכָֽם׃

ve'vlam-khulam-tashuvv-vvo'v-na'-velo'-'emetza'-vakhem-chakham

KJV: But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

AKJV: But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

ASV: But as for you all, come on now again;

YLT: Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.

Exposition: Job 17:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:11

Hebrew

יָמַי עָבְרוּ זִמֹּתַי נִתְּקוּ מוֹרָשֵׁי לְבָבִֽי׃

yamay-'averv-zimotay-niteqv-mvorashey-levaviy

KJV: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

AKJV: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

ASV: My days are past, my purposes are broken off,

YLT: My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

Exposition: Job 17:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:12

Hebrew

לַיְלָה לְיוֹם יָשִׂימוּ אוֹר קָרוֹב מִפְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

layelah-leyvom-yashiymv-'vor-qarvov-mifeney-choshekhe

KJV: They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

AKJV: They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

ASV: They change the night into day:

YLT: Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness.

Exposition: Job 17:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:13

Hebrew

אִם־אֲקַוֶּה שְׁאוֹל בֵּיתִי בַּחֹשֶׁךְ רִפַּדְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃

'im-'aqaveh-she'vol-veytiy-vachoshekhe-rifadetiy-yetzv'ay

KJV: If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

AKJV: If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

ASV: If I look for Sheol as my house;

YLT: If I wait--Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

Exposition: Job 17:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:14

Hebrew

לַשַּׁחַת קָרָאתִי אָבִי אָתָּה אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָֽרִמָּֽה׃

lashachat-qara'tiy-'aviy-'atah-'imiy-va'achotiy-larimah

KJV: I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

AKJV: I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

ASV: If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father;

YLT: To corruption I have called: --Thou art my father.' My mother' and `my sister' --to the worm.

Exposition: Job 17:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:15

Hebrew

וְאַיֵּה אֵפוֹ תִקְוָתִי וְתִקְוָתִי מִי יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃

ve'ayeh-'efvo-tiqevatiy-vetiqevatiy-miy-yeshvrenah

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

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

ASV: Where then is my hope?

YLT: And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

Exposition: Job 17:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Job 17:16

Hebrew

בַּדֵּי שְׁאֹל תֵּרַדְנָה אִם־יַחַד עַל־עָפָר נָֽחַת׃

vadey-she'ol-teradenah-'im-yachad-'al-'afar-nachat

KJV: They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

AKJV: They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

ASV: It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,

YLT: To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

Exposition: Job 17:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.