Job 17:1

Coverdale Bible (1535)

My breth fayleth, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes dore.

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  • Ps 88:3-5 : 3 I am couted as one of the that go downe vnto the pytte, I am eue as a ma that hath no stregth. 4 Fre amoge the deed, like vnto the yt lye in the graue, which be out of remembrauce, and are cutt awaye from thy honde. 5 Thou hast layed me in the lowest pytte, in ye darcknesse and in the depe.
  • Isa 38:10-14 : 10 I thought I shulde haue gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and haue wanted the residue of my yeares. 11 I spake within my self: I shal neuer viset the LORDE God in this life: I shal neuer se man, amonge the dwellers of the worlde 12 Myne age is folden vp together and taken awaye fro me, like a sheperdes cotage: my lyfe is hewen of, like as a weeuer cutteth of his webb. Whyl I was yet takinge my rest, he hewed me of, & made an ende of me in one daie. 13 I thought I wolde haue lyued vnto the morow, but he brussed my bones like a lyon, and made an ende of me in one daye. 14 Then chatred I like a swalowe, and like a Crane, and mourned as a doue. I lift vp myne eyes in to ye hight: O LORDE, (sayde I) violence is done vnto me, be thou suertie for me.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I chide not euer, & am not wroth wt out ende. But ye blastinge goeth fro me, though I make the breath.
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What power haue I to endure? Or? what is myne ende, that my soule might be paciet?
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke. 14 I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister.
  • Job 19:17 : 17 Myne owne wyfe maye not abyde my breth, I am fayne to speake fayre vnto the children of myne owne body.
  • Job 42:16 : 16 After this lyued Iob xl. yeares, so that he sawe his children, & his childers children vnto the fourth generacion.

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  • 11 My dayes are past, my thoughtes are vanished awaye, which haue vexed myne herte,

  • 3 For my dayes are consumed awaye like smoke, & my bones are brent vp as it were a fyre brande.

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    15 that my soule wyssheth rather to be hanged, and my bones to be deed.

    16 I can se no remedy, I shall lyue nomore: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vayne

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    13 Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke.

    14 I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister.

    15 What helpeth then my longe tarienge? Or, who wil fulfill the thinge, that I loke for?

    16 All that I haue, shall go downe in to the pytt, & lye with me in the dust.

  • 10 I thought I shulde haue gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and haue wanted the residue of my yeares.

  • 20 Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle:

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    3 For the enemie persecuteth my soule, he smyteth my life downe to the grounde, he layeth me in the darcknesse, as the deed men of the worlde.

    4 Therfore is my sprete vexed within me, and my herte within me is desolate.

  • 18 He will not let my sprete be in rest, but fylleth me wt bytternesse.

  • 2 I haue disceaued no man, yet must myne eye cotinue in heuynesse

  • 22 His soule draweth on to destruccion, & his life to death.

  • 15 My strength is dried vp like a potsherde, my tunge cleueth to my goomes, and thou hast brought me in to the dust of death.

  • 13 O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntill thy wrath were stilled: & to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou mightest remembre me.

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    3 I am couted as one of the that go downe vnto the pytte, I am eue as a ma that hath no stregth.

    4 Fre amoge the deed, like vnto the yt lye in the graue, which be out of remembrauce, and are cutt awaye from thy honde.

  • 16 Therfore is my mynde poured full of heuynesse, & ye dayes of trouble haue take holde vpon me.

  • 11 My dayes are gone like a shadowe, and I am wythered like grasse.

  • 16 My face is swolle with wepinge, & myne eyes are waxen dymne.

  • 1 it greueth my soule to lyue. Neuerthelesse, now will I put forth my wordes: I wil speake out of the very heuynesse off my soule,

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    5 My flesh is clothed with wormes, fylthinesse and dust: my skynne is wythered, and crompled together:

    6 my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.

    7 O remembre, that my life is but a wynde, ad that myne eye shal nomore se the pleasures

  • 17 I am redy to suffre trouble, and my heuynesse is euer in my sight.

  • 10 My hert paunteth, my strength hath fayled me, & the light of myne eyes is gone fro me.

  • 19 I am eue as it were claye, & am become like asshes & dust.

  • 18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene me.

  • 7 My countenaunce is heuy for very anger, & the membres of my body are become like a shadowe.

  • 11 Therfore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my sprete, in ye bytternesse of my mynde will I talke.

  • 47 Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?

  • 4 Fearfullnesse and tremblinge are come vpon me, and an horrible drede hath ouerwhelmed me.

  • 12 Myne age is folden vp together and taken awaye fro me, like a sheperdes cotage: my lyfe is hewen of, like as a weeuer cutteth of his webb. Whyl I was yet takinge my rest, he hewed me of, & made an ende of me in one daie.

  • 17 Myne owne wyfe maye not abyde my breth, I am fayne to speake fayre vnto the children of myne owne body.

  • 7 Sela. Heare me (o LORDE) and that soone, for my sprete waxeth faynte: hyde not yi face fro me, lest I be like vnto the that go downe in to the graue.

  • 4 My hert was hote within me, & whyle I was thus musynge, the fyre kyndled: so that I spake with my tonge.

  • 19 What is he, that will go to lawe with me? For yf I holde my tonge, I shal dye.

  • 28 where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

  • 18 I thought in my self: I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the LORDE.

  • 10 But as for man, when he is deed, perished and consumed awaye, what becommeth of him?

  • 4 Blessed is he that hath ye God of Iacob for his helpe, and whose hope is in the LORDE his God.

  • 6 He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer.

  • 24 This is the cause, that I syghe before I eate, and my roaringes fall out like a water floude.

  • 20 Considre (O LORDE) how I am troubled, my wombe is disquieted, my herte turneth aboute in me, and I am full of heuynes. The swearde hurteth me without, and within I am like vnto death.

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    7 My coutenauce is chaunged for very inwarde grefe, I cosume awaye, I haue so many enemies.