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Job 17

1 Job sayth that he consumeth away, and yet doeth paciently abide it. 10 He exhorteth his friends to repentance, 13 Shewing that he loketh but for death.
1.My breath is corrupt: my daies are cut of, and the grave is ready for me.
2.There are none but amockers with me, and mine eye continueth in btheir bitternes,
3.cLaye downe now and put me in suretie for thee: who is he, that dwil touche mine hand?
4.For thou hast hid their heart from eunderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them upon hie.
5.fFor the eyes of his children shal faile, that speaketh flaterie to his friends.
6.He hath also made me a gbyworde of the people, and I am as a tabret hbefore them.
7.Mine eye therefore is dim for grief, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
8.The righteous shal be astonied at ithis, and the innocent shalbe moved against the hypocrite. The fall of the wicked. Job. 17:
9.But the righteous wil holde his kwaye, and he whose hands are pure, shal increase his strength.
10.All lyou therefore turne you, and come now, and I shal not finde one wise among you.
11.My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoghts of mine heart
12.Have changed the mnight for the day, and the light that approached, for darkenes.
13.Thogh I hope, nyet the grave shalbe mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.
14.I shal say to corruption, Thou art my ofather, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
15.Where is then now mine hope? or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for?
16.pThey shal go downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shal lye together in the dust.

Notes

2-a.
Instead of comfort, being now at death’s door, he had but them, that mocked at him, and discouraged him.
2-b.
I see still that they seek but to vex me.
3-c.
He reasons with God as a man beside himself to the intent that his cause might be brought to light.
3-d.
And answer for you?
4-e.
That these my afflictions are your just judgements, though man know not the cause.
5-f.
He that flatters a man, and only judges him happy in his prosperity, shall not himself only, but in his posterity be punished.
6-g.
God has made all the world to speak of me, because of my afflictions.
6-h.
That is, as a continual sound in their ears.
8-i.
To wit, when they see the godly punished: but in the end they shall come to understand, and know what shall be the reward of the hypocrite. 2
9-k.
That is, will not be discouraged, considering that the godly are punished aswel as the wicked.
10-l.
Job speaks to them three, that came to comfort him.
12-m.
That is, have brought me sorrow instead of comfort.
13-n.
Though I should hope to come from adversity to prosperity as your discourse pretends.
14-o.
I have nomore hope in father, mother, sister, or any worldly thing: for the dust and worms shalbe to me instead of them.
16-p.
All worldly hope, and prosperity fail, which you say, are only signs of God’s favour: but seeing that these things perish, I set my hope in God, and in the life everlasting.