Job 17 · Verse 15

Job 17:15

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:15, King James Version

Job 17:15 in other translations

BSBwhere then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
WEBwhere then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
ASVWhere then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
YLTAnd where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
DARBYAnd where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
BBEWhere then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
WebsterAnd where is now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

What does Job 17:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. Who shall see it fulfilled? namely, the "hope" (Job 11:18) which they held out to him of restoration.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 And where is now my hope? - In the circumstances in which I am found, of what use can hope be? Were I to form the expectation of future good, who could ever see it realized? Is it then any wonder that I should complain and bemoan my wretched lot?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 17:10-16

Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, and others, in distress, with that which will not fail; the promise of God, his love and grace, and a well-grounded hope of…

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Job 17:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְ֭אַיֵּהVe.'ai.yehand where?H346
אֵפ֣וֹ'e.FothenH645
תִקְוָתִ֑יtik.va.Ti[is] hope myH8615
וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗יve.tik.va.Tiand hope myH8615
מִ֣יmiwho?H4310
יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה\׃ye.shu.Re.nahwill he observe itH7789

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 17:15

  • Job 13:15

    Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

  • Job 19:10

    He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

  • Job 4:6

    Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

  • Job 6:11

    What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 7:6

    My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
my hope.
4:6; 6:11; 13:15; 19:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 17:14

    I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

  • Job 17:15

    And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 17:16

    They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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Job 17:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Dónde pues estará ahora mi esperanza? y mi esperanza ¿quién la verá?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Où donc est mon espoir? Et mon espoir, qui le verra?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wo denn also ist meine Hoffnung? ja, meine Hoffnung, wer wird sie schauen?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ubi est ergo nunc præstolatio mea? et patientiam meam quis considerat?