Job 17 Parallel Bible Translations

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Bishops' Bible of 1568
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1 My breath is corrupt, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes doore. “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
2 Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them. Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
3 O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suretie in thy sight: what is he that knoweth who wyll promise for me? “Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? “Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
4 For thou hast withholden their heartes from vnderstanding, therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie. Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 He that speaketh flatterie to his friend, the eyes of his children shall fayle. He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.
6 He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy. “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
7 Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe. My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
8 Vertuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shal take part against the hypocrite. The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
9 The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger. Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
10 As for al you, turne you and get you hence I pray you seeing I can not finde one wyse man among you. But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
11 My dayes are past, and my counsailes and thoughtes of my heart are vanished away, My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart
12 Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse. They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’ turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.
13 Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke. If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
14 I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister. if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for? where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
16 (17:15) These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust. Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?” Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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