Job 17 cross-references
Job 17 has 16 verses, which point to 140 other passages and are cited by 126. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
See Job 17’s threads in the explorerJob 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Points to (7)
- Isaiah 38:10–14 — I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of… 5 votes
- Psalms 88:3–5 — For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 votes
- Isaiah 57:16 — For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and… 3 votes
- Job 42:16 — After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 3 votes
- Job 19:17 — My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. 3 votes
- Job 17:13–14 — If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 3 votes
Pointed to from (8)
- Psalms 146:4 — His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 3 votes
- Psalms 88:4 — I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 3 votes
- Job 6:11 — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 3 votes
- Isaiah 38:12 — Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he… 2 votes
Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Points to (9)
- Job 16:20 — My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 4 votes
- Job 12:4 — I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is… 4 votes
- 1 Samuel 1:6–7 — And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. 4 votes
- Matthew 27:39–44 — And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 3 votes
- Psalms 91:1 — He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 votes
- Psalms 35:14–16 — I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for… 2 votes
Pointed to from (8)
- Job 11:3 — Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 5 votes
- Job 21:3 — Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 votes
- Job 16:20 — My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 4 votes
- Luke 8:53 — And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. 3 votes
Job 17:3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Points to (11)
- Hebrews 7:22 — By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 4 votes
- Isaiah 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O… 4 votes
- Proverbs 11:15 — He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure. 4 votes
- Psalms 119:122 — Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. 3 votes
- Genesis 44:32 — For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall… 3 votes
- Genesis 43:9 — I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before… 3 votes
Pointed to from (5)
- Isaiah 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O… 6 votes
- Proverbs 6:1 — My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, 5 votes
- Psalms 119:122 — Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. 3 votes
- Job 31:35 — Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary… 3 votes
Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Points to (8)
- Matthew 11:25 — At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid… 7 votes
- Matthew 13:11 — He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,… 6 votes
- 2 Samuel 17:14 — And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of… 5 votes
- 1 Corinthians 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the… 4 votes
- Isaiah 19:14 — The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work… 4 votes
- 2 Chronicles 25:16 — And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel?… 3 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling… 4 votes
- Job 12:20 — He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. 4 votes
- Job 18:3 — Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 3 votes
- Job 12:24 — He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness… 3 votes
Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Points to (10)
- Psalms 12:2–3 — They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 5 votes
- Proverbs 29:5 — A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. 3 votes
- Proverbs 20:19 — He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his… 3 votes
- Job 32:21–22 — Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. 2 votes
- Job 11:20 — But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of… 2 votes
- 1 Kings 11:12 — Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand… 2 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Proverbs 29:5 — A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. 5 votes
- Job 11:20 — But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of… 3 votes
- Deuteronomy 28:32 — Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with… 3 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5 — For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: 2 votes
Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Points to (5)
- Psalms 44:14 — Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 5 votes
- Job 30:9 — And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. 5 votes
- Isaiah 5:12 — And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work… 2 votes
- 1 Kings 9:7 — Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for… 2 votes
- Genesis 31:27 — Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have… 2 votes
Pointed to from (6)
- Job 30:9 — And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. 7 votes
- Psalms 69:11 — I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 4 votes
- Job 12:4 — I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is… 4 votes
- Psalms 44:14 — Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 3 votes
Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Points to (7)
- Psalms 6:7 — Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. 4 votes
- Job 16:16 — My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 4 votes
- Psalms 31:9–10 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 3 votes
- Lamentations 5:17 — For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a… 2 votes
- Psalms 109:23 — I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 2 votes
Pointed to from (5)
- Lamentations 5:17 — For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 4 votes
- Psalms 6:7 — Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. 4 votes
- Job 16:16 — My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 3 votes
- Psalms 88:9 — Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands… 2 votes
Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Points to (7)
- Habakkuk 1:13 — Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them… 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 — If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province,… 4 votes
- Romans 11:33 — O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and… 3 votes
- Acts 13:46 — Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been… 3 votes
- Psalms 73:12–15 — Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. 3 votes
- Job 34:30 — That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. 3 votes
Pointed to from (3)
- Job 1:8 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth,… 4 votes
- Job 33:9 — I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. 2 votes
- Job 21:5 — Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 2 votes
Job 17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Points to (16)
- Proverbs 4:18 — But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 17 votes
- Isaiah 1:15–16 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will… 8 votes
- Job 22:30 — He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. 7 votes
- 2 Corinthians 12:9–10 — And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most… 6 votes
- Proverbs 14:16 — A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. 6 votes
- Psalms 84:7 — They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 6 votes
Pointed to from (31)
- Isaiah 40:31 — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they… 83 votes
- Revelation 22:11 — He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is… 25 votes
- Psalms 24:4 — He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn… 17 votes
- 1 Peter 2:2 — As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 16 votes
Job 17:10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Points to (9)
- Job 42:7 — And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My… 3 votes
- Job 6:29 — Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. 3 votes
- 1 Corinthians 6:5 — I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to… 2 votes
- 1 Corinthians 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the… 2 votes
- Malachi 3:18 — Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him… 2 votes
- Job 32:9 — Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. 2 votes
Pointed to from (6)
- Malachi 3:18 — Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him… 3 votes
- Job 18:3 — Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 3 votes
- Job 6:29 — Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. 3 votes
- Job 26:3 — How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 2 votes
Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Points to (11)
- Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 6 votes
- Isaiah 38:10 — I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of… 5 votes
- Proverbs 16:9 — A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. 4 votes
- James 4:13–15 — Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 1:15–17 — And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; 3 votes
- Lamentations 3:37 — Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 3 votes
Pointed to from (8)
- Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 5 votes
- Psalms 146:4 — His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 4 votes
- Job 33:17 — That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. 3 votes
- Lamentations 3:54 — Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. 2 votes
Job 17:12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
Points to (4)
- Job 24:14–16 — The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 2 votes
- Job 7:13–14 — When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 2 votes
- Job 7:3–4 — So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 2 votes
- Deuteronomy 28:67 — In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning!… 2 votes
Pointed to from (2)
- Isaiah 5:20 — Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that… 32 votes
- Job 7:4 — When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto… 2 votes
Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Points to (9)
- Job 10:21–22 — Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 3 votes
- Lamentations 3:25–26 — The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 2 votes
- Isaiah 57:2 — He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. 2 votes
- Psalms 139:8 — If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 2 votes
- Psalms 27:14 — Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. 2 votes
- Job 30:23 — For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 2 votes
Pointed to from (10)
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 — Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree… 7 votes
- Psalms 49:14 — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over… 4 votes
- Job 17:1 — My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 3 votes
- Isaiah 14:11 — Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the… 2 votes
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Points to (13)
- Psalms 16:10 — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 3 votes
- 1 Corinthians 15:53–54 — For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 2 votes
- 1 Corinthians 15:42 — So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 2 votes
- Acts 13:34–37 — And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this… 2 votes
- Acts 2:27–31 — Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 2 votes
- Isaiah 14:11 — Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the… 2 votes
Pointed to from (11)
- Job 7:5 — My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 5 votes
- 1 Corinthians 15:42 — So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 4 votes
- Acts 13:36 — For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his… 2 votes
- Proverbs 7:4 — Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 2 votes
Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Points to (5)
- Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 4 votes
- Job 19:10 — He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 3 votes
- Job 6:11 — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 3 votes
- Job 4:6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 3 votes
- Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 1 votes
Pointed to from (4)
- Job 4:6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 13 votes
- Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 6 votes
- Lamentations 3:18 — And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: 4 votes
- Job 19:10 — He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 2 votes
Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Points to (9)
- Job 3:17–19 — There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 5 votes
- Jonah 2:6 — I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou… 4 votes
- Ezekiel 37:11 — Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are… 3 votes
- Isaiah 38:17–18 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of… 3 votes
- Psalms 143:7 — Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down… 3 votes
- Psalms 88:4–8 — I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 3 votes
Pointed to from (5)
- Job 3:17 — There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 4 votes
- Ezekiel 28:8 — They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of… 2 votes
- Job 33:28 — He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. 2 votes
- Job 21:33 — The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable… 2 votes