Job 17

Treated in 3 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 17:9 The righteous hold to their way, and those with clean hands grow stronger and stronger. 2
  • 17:15 Where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    Obedience cites Job 17: 9

    …with affliction, we must go on in our obedience. ‘The righteous shall hold on his way.’ Job 17: 9. We have vowed constancy; we have vowed to renounce the pomps and vanities of the world…

  2. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion cites Job. 17:9

    …112:7, and to have his heart established with grace, Heb. 13:9, and to hold on his way, Job. 17:9: “The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger…

  3. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Perseverance cites Job xvii. 15

    …David, “I shall one day perish” (1 Sam. xxvii. 1); and with Job, “Where is my hope?” (Job xvii. 15.) The “joy and peace in believing,” which some feel, and the “witness of the Spirit,”…