Bible Commentaries

Verse 1

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

breath is corrupt

or, spirit is spent.

19:17

my days

6:11; 42:16; Isaiah 57:16

the graves

13,14; Psalms 88:3-5; Isaiah 38:10-14

Reciprocal: Job 33:22 - his soul;  Psalm 88:4 - counted;  Psalm 88:15 - afflicted;  Psalm 146:4 - His breath;  Isaiah 38:12 - he will cut

Verse 2

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

mockers

12:4; 13:9; 16:20; 21:3; Psalms 35:14-16; Matthew 27:39-44

continue

Heb. lodge.

Psalms 25:13; 91:1; *marg:

provocation

1 Samuel 1:6,7

Reciprocal: Job 11:3 - mockest;  Job 15:12 - thy eyes;  Job 27:12 - altogether;  Luke 8:53 - laughed

Verse 3

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

put me

9:33; Genesis 43:9; 44:32; Proverbs 11:15; 20:16; Hebrews 7:22

strike

Proverbs 6:11; 11:15; *marg:; Proverbs 17:18; 22:26

Reciprocal: Job 31:35 - Oh

Verse 4

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

2 Samuel 15:31; 17:14; 2 Chronicles 25:16; Isaiah 19:14; Matthew 11:25; 13:11; Romans 11:8; 1 Corinthians 1:20

Reciprocal: Job 12:2 - ye are the people;  Job 12:20 - taketh;  Job 12:24 - He taketh;  Job 17:10 - for I;  Job 18:3 - Wherefore;  Job 39:17 - General

Verse 5

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

He that

32:21,22; Psalms 12:2,3; Proverbs 20:19; 29:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:5

the eyes

Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 28:65; 1 Kings 11:12; Lamentations 4:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:32 - fail;  Job 13:7 - General;  Proverbs 19:22 - and

Verse 6

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

a by-word

30:9; 1 Kings 9:7; Psalms 44:14

aforetime

or, before them. as a tabret.

Genesis 31:27; Isaiah 5:12

Reciprocal: Job 12:4 - one mocked

Verse 7

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

Mine eye

16:16; Psalms 6:7; 31:9,10; Lamentations 5:17

members

or, thoughts.

shadow

Psalms 109:23; Ecclesiastes 6:12

Reciprocal: Psalm 88:9 - Mine

Verse 8

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

astonied

Psalms 73:12-15; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Habakkuk 1:13; Romans 11:33

stir up

34:30; Acts 13:46

Reciprocal: Job 1:8 - upright;  Job 21:5 - be astonished;  Job 33:9 - innocent

Verse 9

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

hold on

Psalms 84:7,11; Proverbs 4:18; 14:16; Isaiah 35:8-10; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 John 2:19

clean

Genesis 20:5; Psalms 24:4; 26:6; 73:13; Isaiah 1:15,16; Mark 7:2

be stronger and stronger

Heb. add strength.

Isaiah 40:29-31; 2 Corinthians 12:9,10

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:10 - two bands;  2 Samuel 3:1 - David waxed;  2 Samuel 5:10 - General;  2 Samuel 22:21 - cleanness;  1 Chronicles 11:9 - waxed greater and greater;  1 Chronicles 12:22 - day by day;  Job 1:8 - upright;  Job 23:11 - his way;  Psalm 37:34 - keep;  Psalm 92:14 - in old age;  Psalm 94:15 - and all;  Psalm 119:157 - yet do I;  Isaiah 40:31 - renew;  Hosea 14:9 - and the;  Matthew 13:33 - till;  Luke 13:21 - till;  John 10:28 - they;  John 15:2 - and;  Acts 9:22 - increased;  Romans 2:7 - patient;  Philippians 1:9 - your;  Philippians 3:12 - already perfect;  1 Thessalonians 4:1 - so ye;  2 Thessalonians 1:3 - your;  James 1:4 - let;  James 4:8 - Cleanse;  1 Peter 2:2 - grow;  Revelation 2:19 - the last;  Revelation 22:11 - and he that

Verse 10

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

do ye return

6:29; Malachi 3:18

for I

4; 15:9; 32:9; 42:7; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 6:5

Reciprocal: Job 15:27 - he covereth;  Job 18:3 - Wherefore;  Job 26:3 - counselled

Verse 11

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

My days

7:6; 9:25,26; Isaiah 38:10

purposes

Proverbs 16:9; 19:21; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Isaiah 8:10; Lamentations 3:37; Romans 1:13; 2 Corinthians 1:15-17; James 4:13-15

thoughts

Heb. possessions.

Reciprocal: Job 17:7 - members;  Job 19:10 - I am gone;  Job 33:17 - withdraw;  Psalm 88:15 - afflicted;  Psalm 146:4 - his thoughts;  Ecclesiastes 2:20 - General;  Lamentations 3:54 - I said

Verse 12

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

change

7:3,4,13,14; 24:14-16; Deuteronomy 28:67

short

Heb. near.

Verse 13

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

If I wait

14:14; Psalms 27:14; Lamentations 3:25,26

the grave

1; 10:21,22; 30:23

I have made

Psalms 139:8; Isaiah 57:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:19 - and;  Job 14:10 - man;  Job 33:22 - his soul;  Job 36:20 - Desire;  Psalm 49:14 - they;  Ecclesiastes 3:20 - go;  Ecclesiastes 12:5 - because;  Isaiah 14:11 - the worm

Verse 14

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

said

Heb. cried, or, called. corruption.

21:32,33; Psalms 16:10; 49:9; Acts 2:27-31; 13:34-37; 1 Corinthians 15:42,53,54

to the worm

19:26; 24:20; Isaiah 14:11

Reciprocal: Job 6:8 - the thing that I long for;  Job 6:11 - What;  Job 7:5 - flesh;  Job 7:21 - sleep;  Job 10:9 - into dust again;  Job 17:1 - the graves;  Job 21:26 - the worms;  Job 30:29 - a brother;  Job 36:20 - Desire;  Psalm 49:14 - they;  Proverbs 7:4 - Thou;  Acts 13:36 - and saw

Verse 15

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

my hope

4:6; 6:11; 13:15; 19:10

Reciprocal: Job 7:6 - without hope;  Lamentations 3:18 - General

Verse 16

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

the bars of the pit

18:13,14; 33:18-28; Psalms 88:4-8; 143:7; Isaiah 38:17,18; Jonah 2:6

rest

3:17-19; Ezekiel 37:11; 2 Corinthians 1:9 Reciprocal: Job 33:28 - will deliver;  Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring