Job 17

World English Bible 84 include this book

1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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2 places named in this book — no place is named in this chapter, so the whole book is shown.

Not known unknown No setting is given, and the book is deliberately placed outside Israel's history.

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 2000 BC–1800 BC Unknown
The patriarchal setting and absence of Israelite institutions have long suggested a very early origin.
Critical: 600 BC–400 BC Unknown
Language and the developed treatment of suffering point to the exilic or post-exilic period.

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (2000 BC–400 BC).

2600 BC–1900 BC Indus Valley cities India
Harappa and Mohenjo-daro housed tens of thousands, with planned streets and drainage, and a script still undeciphered.
2055 BC–1650 BC Egyptian Middle Kingdom Egypt
Egypt reunified under Theban rule; large-scale irrigation works and the classical form of the Egyptian language date from this period.
1900 BC–1450 BC Minoan palace culture Greece
Crete supported a literate palace society trading across the Aegean long before mainland Greece.
1755 BC–1750 BC Code of Hammurabi Mesopotamia
Babylonian law code inscribed on a basalt stele, covering property, family and injury, and predating the Mosaic law codes.
1600 BC–1046 BC Shang dynasty oracle bones China
The earliest substantial Chinese writing, inscribed on bone and shell for divination.
1600 BC–1178 BC Hittite empire Anatolia
An Anatolian power rivalling Egypt, ended in the Bronze Age collapse.
1200 BC–1150 BC Late Bronze Age collapse Mediterranean
Within roughly two generations most eastern Mediterranean states fell; cities were destroyed, trade networks broke and literacy contracted sharply.
1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
Iron gradually displaced bronze for tools and weapons across the eastern Mediterranean.

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