Job 17:10-16

Final repudiation by Job of the false hopes of recovery which the friends held out to him. He knows better, hishope is in the grave.

Turning with a last word to his friends Job bids them renew as often as they chose their attempts to explain his condition, they should only shew themselves ignorant and incapable (Job 17:10). The hopes they held out were vain; his days were at an end and all the enterprises and dearest purposes of his life for ever broken off (Job 17:11). His hope was in the grave, where alone he would find rest (Job 17:13).