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A graveyard awaits

Job 17:1-16 (JDV)

Job 17:1 My breath is disturbed. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me.
Job 17:2 Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
Job 17:3 Accept my pledge! Put up security for me. Who else will be my sponsor?
therefore,You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not honor them.
Job 17:5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 17:6 He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a face people spit at.
Job 17:7 My eyes have grown dim from aggravation, and my whole body has become but a shadow.
Job 17:8 The upright is appalled at this, and the innocent are roused against the godless.
Job 17:9 Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.
Job 17:10 But come back and try again, all of you. I will not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11 My days have slipped by; my plans have been torn up, even the things dear to my heart.
Job 17:12 They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness.
Job 17:13 If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,
Job 17:14 and say to rot, “You are my father,” and to the maggot, “My mother” or “My sister,”
Job 17:15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
Job 17:16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?

A graveyard awaits

Job did not anticipate an answer to his problem in death. He would not be vindicated at death. A graveyard awaited him, and he did not find his hope there. His hope (we will discover in chapter 19) is a resurrection.